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It would seem as if bonds and greenbacks must both gain from this business, and with them the country must gain also.
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Sumner suggests that both bonds and greenbacks can benefit from a particular financial strategy, leading to national gain.
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In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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