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Meanwhile to my mind there is something better than belligerent intervention and acts of war with the menace of absorption at untold cost of treasure.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of peaceful solutions over military intervention.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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!
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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