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Reconstruction is as political as the war, or as any of the means for its conduct.
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Sumner equates the political nature of Reconstruction with that of the Civil War, emphasizing its significance.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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.
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