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I realize more and more, every day, the necessity of such a measure of justice as your ‘Supplementary Bill.’ When that becomes a law, the freedom of my race will then be complete.
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Sumner reflects on the necessity of justice for his race, linking it to the passage of the Supplementary Bill.
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