Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Sumner” in chapter 16 of Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career.:
... were gradually breaking; and the freedmen, until now denominated contrabands, were in need of personal protection, and the acknowledgment of political rights.
First and foremost in their defence, Mr. Sumner continued to press upon the attention of the Senate, not yet exempt from the leaven of secession, measure after measure for the security of the freedom of the colored people, of the slave-territory o...
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