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So long as a dollar of irredeemable paper is forced upon the country, the Rebellion still lives, in its spurious progeny.
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Sumner warns that the presence of irredeemable currency perpetuates the rebellion's influence.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
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