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And all this you sanction, when you leave the freedman despoiled of his rights.
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Sumner criticizes the sanctioning of injustice against freedmen by society.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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