There is the President himself, who once charmed the country and the age by announcing himself the “Moses” of their redemption; and yet he now exerts all his mighty power against the establishment of safeguards without which there can be no true redemption.
Sumner critiques the President for opposing necessary safeguards for true redemption of freedmen despite his earlier promises.
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The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
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