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It is nothing less than a caste, which is irreligious as well as unrepublican.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It is nothing less than a caste, which is irreligious as well as unrepublican.”
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Sumner describes the government of the Rebel States as a caste system that contradicts republican values.
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