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The pretended Legislature is plotting, like such bodies elsewhere, against the freedman.
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Sumner criticizes the actions of a fraudulent legislature that undermines the rights of freedmen.
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In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
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