I insist, Sir, that you cannot sanction injustice here, especially you cannot sanction a prejudice founded on color, without quickening that prejudice, and sustaining it, wherever it now unhappily exists throughout our whole country.
Sumner insists that endorsing injustice in the Senate will perpetuate racial prejudice across the country.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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