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Thus does that terrible judgment, once a ban to the colored race, now testify to their indisputable rights as “citizens.
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Sumner argues that a past judgment that oppressed the colored race now affirms their rights as citizens.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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