If matters are permitted to continue as they now seem likely to be, it needs no prophet to predict a rising on the part of the colored population, and a terrible scene of bloodshed and desolation; nor can one blame the negroes, if this proves to be the result.
Sumner warns of the potential for violent uprisings among the colored population if injustices continue.
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