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If we have failed thus far in knowledge of the enemy’s designs, it is because this absurd policy has prevailed.
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Sumner attributes failures in understanding the enemy's plans to the absurd policy of excluding slaves.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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!
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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