The colored people are not ungenerous, and therefore will incline to any measures of good-will and reconciliation; but I trust no excess of benevolence will make them consent to any postponement of those equal rights which are still refused.
Sumner expresses hope that the colored community will not accept delays in achieving their equal rights.
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