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This will not be allowed, where the interests of whites are involved.
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Sumner warns that the interests of white individuals will prevent justice for freedmen in court.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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