That Democrats, and especially those of the South, should adopt a life-time Abolitionist for President is an assurance of willingness to associate the rights of their colored fellow-citizens with that Reconciliation of which Horace Greeley was an early representative.
Sumner comments on the significance of a Southern Democrat supporting an abolitionist for president, indicating a shift in attitudes towards race.
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