Sumner for proposing to give the ballot to the negroes and disfranchise the white Rebels, but his moral vision failed to discern anything amiss in his own ghastly policy of arming the white Rebels with the ballot and denying it to the loyal negroes.
Julian criticizes Sumner for his contradictory stance on voting rights for African Americans and white Rebels.
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The people took the work of politics into their own keeping, and the leaders became followers.
I not only meant that they should not be ashamed of it, but that, if possible, it should stand the test of criticism, both as to matter and diction.
If it had been morally possible, I would have supported him gladly.
They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.
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