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For such a party there was no death, but higher life and nobler aims; and this was the party to which I gave my vows.
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Sumner expresses his commitment to the Republican Party's ideals of higher purpose and moral aims.
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As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
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.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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