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As the occasion is extraordinary, so the “means” employed must be extraordinary.
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Sumner emphasizes the need for extraordinary measures in response to extraordinary occasions.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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