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When I read in this morning’s Tribune of the vote to postpone the Louisiana matter until December, I felt as if a great moral as well as political battle had been won by our side.
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Sumner reflects on a significant political victory regarding the Louisiana matter.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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