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It would be difficult to point out any law, the spawn of cruelty or tyranny, in ancient or modern times, exceeding in atrocity that by which a free population is thus despoiled of protection on account of color.
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Sumner condemns a particular law as one of the most atrocious in history for stripping protections based on race.
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