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Let me say that I should consider myself bound by the Constitutional Amendment, if the Southern States complied with it within a reasonable time; and that reasonable time, in my judgment, is nearly elapsed.
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Sumner discusses his commitment to the Constitutional Amendment contingent on Southern compliance.
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