I cannot doubt our constitutional power at this moment to set aside all those decrees, so far as they have not been voluntarily submitted to, or subject them, according to the provision of my amendment, to appeal in a higher tribunal after the reorganization of justice in these States.
Sumner expresses confidence in the constitutional power to address injustices in the Southern states post-Civil War.
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