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Search history, and you can find no instance of equal audacity on the part of rebels, and no instance of equal forbearance on the part of Government.
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Sumner highlights the audacity of the rebels and the forbearance of the government during the Civil War.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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.
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