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Without union, peace on this continent is impossible; but life without peace is impossible also.
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Sumner argues that peace is unattainable without union, and vice versa.
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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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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