The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. — Lyman Trumbull

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Lyman Trumbull : American Politician
Born:  October 12, 1813
Died:  June 25, 1896