While statesmen, merchants, and bankers are laboring to carry on a suicidal war in a conservative spirit, and to spare the interests and prejudices of the foe, a more numerous class from the Atlantic to the Mississippi have no such scruple, and go to the root of the evil.
Sumner critiques the conservative approach to the Civil War, advocating for a more aggressive stance against slavery.
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