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Nor do I see how I can abandon their rights here without abandoning them everywhere.
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Sumner argues that abandoning the rights of colored persons in one place means abandoning them everywhere.
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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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