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Should they exclude fellow-citizens on account of color, it will be a violation of law and a failure of duty; there can be no votes of thanks for them,--“no hope of golden spurs to-day.
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Sumner condemns the exclusion of citizens based on color, asserting it as a violation of law and duty.
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