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By no effort of ingenuity or malignity can it be tortured into anything but an offer of reconciliation, while the very letter of acceptance, where it appears, declares the established supremacy of Equal Rights.
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Sumner argues that an offer of reconciliation should not be misrepresented, highlighting the supremacy of equal rights.
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