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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 10 (search)
n. establishing the right to vote and hold office without discrimination as to race or color, in all national, State, territorial, and municipal elections, which received only nine votes, including those of Edmunds, Wade, and Wilson. In a speech he traversed familiar ground, in which he maintained that disabilities of race and color, at once irrational and beyond the power of any individual to remove, were not qualifications or regulations of suffrage which the States could prescribe. Feb. 5, 1869; Works, vol. XIII. pp. 34-52. He made further remarks, February 8 and 9 (Congressional Globe, pp. 986, 1041). He affirmed, as the supreme rule of interpretation, Anything for human rights is constitutional. . . . Whatever you enact for human rights is constitutional. There can be no State rights against human rights. To him it was incomprehensible that all publicists, all reasonable men, should not see the question as he saw it, and he had full faith in the efficacy of a statute. Som