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Let these be overthrown or abandoned, and I know no adequate safeguard against an outrageous oppression of the freedman, which will be Slavery under another name.
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Sumner warns that abandoning the Reconstruction Acts would lead to a new form of slavery for freedmen.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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