Not without anxiety do I wait, but with the earnest hope that the Convention will bring the Republican Party into ancient harmony, saving it especially from the suicidal folly of an issue on the personal pretensions of one man.
Sumner expresses hope for unity within the Republican Party and warns against personal conflicts.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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