On the record
The stigma of Repudiation, whether breathed in doubt or hurled in taunt, will be silenced.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of maintaining national credit and avoiding the stigma of repudiation in financial matters.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
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