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Yet most of these faithful Unionists are not white.
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Sumner points out that many of the loyal Unionists in the Slave States are not white, challenging racial assumptions of the time.
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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.
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