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Charles Sumner: “If I do not adopt the expedients proposed, it is because I regard them as less calculated to produce the much-desired…”

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If I do not adopt the expedients proposed, it is because I regard them as less calculated to produce the much-desired result than other means equally at hand, to the end that the rights of our naturalized citizens may find adequate safeguard everywhere.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Sumner explains his reasoning for rejecting certain proposed expedients regarding the rights of naturalized citizens.

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