The Baltimore platform, on which President Johnson was elected, requires the “utter and complete extirpation of Slavery from the soil of the Republic”; but this can be accomplished only by the eradication of every inequality and caste, so that all shall be equal before the law.
Sumner insists that true equality before the law is necessary for the complete eradication of slavery's legacy.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
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