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Foremost among these I put the absolute dependence of the national finances upon the faithful performance of all our obligations to the national freedmen.
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Sumner highlights the crucial link between national finances and the rights of freedmen.
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It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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