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Sumner was regarded as not only a defence of the individual citizen, but a contribution to good government.
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Sumner's work is recognized as a significant contribution to individual rights and governance.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
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