It has always seemed to me that in the exercise of the pardoning power it would have been easy for the President to require that the person who was to receive a pardon should allot a certain portion of his lands to his freedmen.
Sumner believes that the President could have required land allotments for freedmen as a condition of pardons.
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Without yielding to any of these extreme views with regard to the mischiefs or the benefits of party, all should agree that the only true and legitimate object of such an association is to uphold, advance, and develop certain principles…
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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