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Would you not insist that you must doubt any political party, pretending to be your friend, that failed in this great exigency?
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Sumner suggests that a colored citizen would be right to doubt any political party that fails to support their rights.
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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!
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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