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Abraham Lincoln insisted that the new governments should be founded on loyalty; that, if there were only five thousand loyal persons in a State, they were entitled to hold the power.
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Sumner quotes Abraham Lincoln's principle that loyalty should determine political power.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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