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Any postponement must inevitably throw these claims into direct competition with those now accumulating on account of losses during the Rebellion, having in their favor the swelling sympathies of our time.
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Sumner warns that delaying these claims would pit them against newer claims from the Civil War, which could overshadow them.
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