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To denominate such pretension as intolerable expresses very inadequately the extent of its absurdity, and the utterness of its repugnance to all good principles, whether of reason, morals, or government.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “To denominate such pretension as intolerable expresses very inadequately the extent of its absurdity, and the utterness…”
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Sumner condemns the absurdity of the pretension that allows racial exclusion in governance.
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