In that committee this Reconstruction Bill was debated and matured sentence by sentence, word for word; and then and there, in that committee, I moved that we should require the suffrage of all persons, without distinction of color, in the organization of new governments, and in all the constitutions to be made.
Sumner recounts his efforts to ensure voting rights for all individuals during the Reconstruction process.
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