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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