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Here are our colored fellow-citizens, many millions strong, all of whom have votes, and all unite in asking it.
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Sumner highlights the significant number of colored citizens who are united in their request for the measure, emphasizing their political power.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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