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Are you ready to part with this great control which yet remains to Congress, through which security may be maintained for the rights of all?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Are you ready to part with this great control which yet remains to Congress, through which security may be maintained…”
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Sumner questions whether Congress is willing to relinquish its control over rights protection.
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