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Did the discomfited champions of Freedom fail, who have left those names in history that can never die?
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Sumner honors the champions of freedom, asserting that their contributions to history are everlasting despite their struggles.
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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 are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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