I confess that I have little sympathy with those hypocrites of magnanimity whose appeal for the Rebel master is only a barbarous indifference towards the slave; and yet they cannot more than I desire the day of reconciliation.
Here, Sumner criticizes those who feign magnanimity while actually disregarding the plight of the formerly enslaved.
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