The Senator knows something of the law’s delay and the law’s expense; and I ask him whether it is just to subject an oppressed people to this additional oppression, when, by a few words, Congress, now in session, can overturn the wrong.
Sumner argues against the oppression of marginalized groups by highlighting the power of Congress to enact change.
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