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The various departments of Government have solemnly declared the black man entitled to equal rights before the law with the white man.
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Sumner asserts that the law should treat black men and white men equally, highlighting a fundamental civil rights issue.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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.
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