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In each case you legislate to the same end,--that the freedman may be maintained in the liberty so tardily accorded; and the legislation is just as “appropriate” in one case as in the other.
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Sumner states that legislation aimed at protecting freedmen's rights is equally valid in both civil and political contexts.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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