Charles Sumner: “Would you not insist that you must doubt any political party…”

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Would you not insist that you must doubt any political party, pretending to be your friend, that failed in this great exigency?

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Massachusetts

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Sumner suggests that a colored citizen would be right to doubt any political party that fails to support their rights.

More from Charles Sumner

Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.

The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.

Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.

Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.

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Charles Sumner: “Would you not insist that you must doubt any political party, pretending to be your friend, that failed in this great…”