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Call it protection,--call it what you will: the power of the Government must be to them a shield.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Call it protection,--call it what you will: the power of the Government must be to them a shield.”
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Sumner argues that the government should act as a protective shield for the freedmen.
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