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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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Without yielding to any of these extreme views with regard to the mischiefs or the benefits of party, all should agree that the only true and legitimate object of such an association is to uphold, advance, and develop certain principles…
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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