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Security for the Future was all that our nation required, and this was found in provisions of Law and Constitution establishing Equal Rights.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner argues that the nation only required security for the future through laws establishing equal rights after the Civil War.

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