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You have already proclaimed Emancipation; proclaim Enfranchisement also.
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Sumner urges for the extension of rights to formerly enslaved individuals beyond just emancipation.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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