If to the necessary appropriation and expenditure for all these things is superadded the annual tax of a Standing Army, and that other draft from the change of producers into non-producers, plainly here is a supplementary burden of crushing weight.
Sumner warns of the crushing burden of military and economic demands on France.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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