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Thus her depredations and burnings, making the ocean blaze, all proceeded from England, which by three different acts lighted the torch.
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This statement connects the Alabama's destructive actions directly to British support, framing it as a moral issue.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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