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Amidst all professions of submission, there was immitigable hate to the National Government, and prevailing injustice to the freedman.
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Sumner describes the underlying hatred towards the National Government and injustice faced by freedmen.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
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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.
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