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They are the vanguard, the miners and sappers, of returning despotism.
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Sumner describes those who undermine democracy as the advance guard of tyranny.
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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.
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!
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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