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Our country’s cause recently triumphant in bloodiest war was Liberty and Equality, the declared heritage of all mankind.
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Sumner speaks to the ideals of Liberty and Equality that emerged from the Civil War.
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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!
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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