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Such are unquestionable facts, all of which concentre in the great unquestionable fact, that for the time being there are no State Governments in these States which the National Government can recognize as such.
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Sumner declares that there are no functioning State Governments in the Rebel States that the National Government can recognize.
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It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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