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Persons are returned to Congress whose service in the Rebellion makes it impossible for them to take the oath of office,--as in the case of Georgia, which selects as Senators Herschel V.
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Sumner highlights the issue of former Confederates being elected to Congress despite their rebellion.
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More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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