It passes my comprehension how we can require Equal Rights in the Rebel States, when we deliberately sanction the denial of Equal Rights in a new State, completely within our jurisdiction and about to be fashioned by our hands.
Sumner critiques the inconsistency of demanding equal rights in rebel states while denying them in a new state.
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