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Through liberation alone can we obtain that complete triumph, bringing with it assured tranquillity, without which the war will stop merely to break forth anew, and peace will be nothing but an uneasy truce.
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He posits that true victory and lasting peace can only be achieved through the liberation of enslaved people.
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