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Amnesty is adopted; but where are the equal rights of the colored race?--still afloat between the two Houses on an imperfect bill.
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Sumner questions the absence of equal rights for the colored race despite the adoption of amnesty.
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Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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