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If at the present moment our efforts seem in any respect sectional or against the South, it is simply because the chief opponents of our principles are there.
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Sumner explains that any perception of sectionalism in their efforts is due to the location of their main opponents.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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