In all the States--even in the Slave States--a free colored man may hold property of all kinds, personal or real,--even land, in which citizenship strikes its strongest root; but you will not allow him the poor right of petition.
Sumner points out the contradiction of allowing property ownership while denying the right to petition for free colored men.
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