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One thing I know: if it has the power to amnesty Rebels, it has the power to enfranchise colored fellow-citizens.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of granting rights to formerly enslaved individuals by comparing it to the power of amnesty for rebels.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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