It is common to think only of the national debt, now swelling to unnatural proportions; but this will be small by the side of the fearful sum-total of loss from destruction of property, derangement of business, and change of productive to unproductive industry.
Sumner emphasizes the extensive economic damage caused by the war, which far exceeds the national debt.
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