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As you once needed the muskets of blacks, so now you need their votes,--and to such extent that you can act with little reference to theory.
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He draws a parallel between the historical need for Black soldiers and the current need for their votes in the Reconstruction effort.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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