Charles Sumner: “Concede that the soldier may be enfranchised, and then by the same…”

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Concede that the soldier may be enfranchised, and then by the same constitutional power his family may be admitted to an equal liberty.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner argues for the enfranchisement of soldiers and their families as a matter of justice.

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