I may be mistaken, Sir, but I think it difficult to read this proposition without being painfully impressed by the discord and defilement it will introduce into the National Constitution, having among specific objects the guaranty of a republican form of government.
Sumner warns about the negative implications of a proposed constitutional change that could disrupt national unity.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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