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If I bring these resolutions to this touchstone, they fail.
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Sumner concludes that the resolutions do not meet his criteria for supporting the Rebellion's suppression.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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