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Commerce will find new arms, the country new defenders, the national flag new hands to bear it aloft.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Commerce will find new arms, the country new defenders, the national flag new hands to bear it aloft.”
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Sumner foresees commerce evolving and the nation being defended by new generations.
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