Nor is it any exaggeration to suppose that in the unborn ages, illumined by a truth now, alas! too dimly perceived, the class of warriors and conquerors, of which these are signal types, will become extinct,--like the gigantic land reptiles and monster crocodileans belonging to a departed period of zoölogical history.
Sumner predicts the extinction of warriors and conquerors, likening them to ancient reptiles of the past.
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Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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