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No person, civil or military, complains that he appropriated to himself any honor belonging to another.
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Sumner emphasizes the integrity of a person who never claimed undeserved honors.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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