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If there is to be exclusion, let it be of the disloyal, and not of the loyal.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If there is to be exclusion, let it be of the disloyal, and not of the loyal.”
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Sumner advocates for excluding disloyal individuals from government participation rather than loyal citizens.
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