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If something is not done, the President will be crowned king before Congress meets.
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Sumner warns that if action is not taken, the President may gain excessive power before Congress reconvenes.
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Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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!
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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