In securing the Equal Rights of the freedman, and his participation in the Government which he is taxed to support, we shall perform the early promises of the Fathers, and at the same time supplementary promises only recently made to the freedman as the condition of alliance and aid against the Rebellion.
Sumner argues that securing the rights of freedmen is essential to honoring the promises made by the nation's founders.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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