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Few seem willing to admit the simple proposition that all causes of ill-feeling between North and South have been settled by the arbitrament of the sword, and we must submit sincerely.
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Sumner asserts that the Civil War should have resolved the conflicts between the North and South, emphasizing the need for acceptance of this outcome.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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