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Or the State may be subjected to a military government, until such time as it is fit in every respect for self-government.
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Sumner suggests that military governance could be a temporary solution for Georgia until it is ready for self-governance.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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