All, without exception, declare that no system can avail to effect the great objects contemplated that does not assign to one and the same authority the care and disposal of the abandoned plantations and the care and protection of the emancipated laborers who are to cultivate them.
Sumner emphasizes the necessity of a single authority to manage both plantations and the laborers working them.
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