Mark me, if you please,--I say at this moment, and under these circumstances; for, whatever might be done at another time and under other circumstances, I insist that this thing is impossible now, when by every obligation we are solemnly bound to maintain the rights of the colored race.
Sumner insists on the importance of maintaining the rights of the colored race in the present circumstances.
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