All security of person, property, and labor was overthrown; and when I urge this incontrovertible fact, I set forth a wrong which is small only by the side of the giant wrong for the consummation of which all this is done.
Sumner argues that the fundamental rights of individuals have been completely disregarded in the chaos.
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