I defend it in all respects,--not only as an act of essential justice, without which our Nation would be a deformity, but as an irresistible necessity, for the sake of that security without which peace is impossible.
Sumner defends the Reconstruction measure as both a necessary act of justice and a prerequisite for lasting peace.
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