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Having pleaded for the freedman, I now plead for the Republic; for to each alike the ballot is a necessity.
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In this statement, Sumner advocates for the necessity of the ballot for both freedmen and the Republic itself.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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