The very fact which the Senator brings to the attention of the Senate, and on account of which he invokes an unprecedented exercise of power, is important evidence on the condition of things in one of these Rebel States.
Sumner highlights the significance of the Senator's observations as evidence of the troubling conditions in a Rebel State.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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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