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We ought never to have acted on more than one; and had the Senate been sufficiently radical, had it founded its bill on clear, definite principle, there would have been no occasion for more than one.
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Sumner critiques the Senate's approach to Reconstruction, suggesting that a more radical and principled bill would have sufficed.
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