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It rests with you, my fellow-citizens, by word and example, by calm determinations and devoted lives, to do this work.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “It rests with you, my fellow-citizens, by word and example, by calm determinations and devoted lives, to do this work.”
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Sumner calls on citizens to actively participate in the fight for justice, emphasizing the importance of individual and collective action.
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More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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!
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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