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If a citizen cannot give this pledge, he ought to have no part in Reconstruction.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “If a citizen cannot give this pledge, he ought to have no part in Reconstruction.”
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Sumner asserts that citizens unwilling to pledge support for Reconstruction should not participate in it.
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