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If you, Sir, were a colored citizen, would you not also thus write?
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Sumner poses a rhetorical question to emphasize the perspective of a colored citizen regarding political loyalty.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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