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The foes of justice and freedom accuse you of accelerating the crisis and precipitating civil war by that speech.
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Sumner addresses accusations against a speaker for inciting civil unrest through their words.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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