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And such, permit me to say, is the single supreme object of the present bill, which has been so cordially misrepresented by the Senator from West Virginia, and so strangely misrepresented by my friend from Iowa.
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Sumner clarifies that the main goal of the bill is to provide care and protection for freed individuals, countering misrepresentations.
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