As a candidate for reëlection he invites judgment, while partisans acting in his behalf make it absolutely necessary by the brutality of their assault on faithful Republicans unwilling to see their party, like the Presidential office, a personal perquisite.
Sumner critiques the President's re-election campaign and the brutal tactics used by his partisans.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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