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I confess, Sir, that I cannot think of the medical profession at the National Capital engaged in this warfare on their colored brethren without sentiments which it is difficult to restrain.
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Sumner expresses his emotional response to the medical profession's treatment of people of color, revealing his moral outrage.
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