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All these various voices, of different times and lands, mingle and intertwine in representing the great future of our Republic, which from small beginnings has already become great.
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Sumner reflects on the diverse voices that contribute to the vision of America's future.
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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.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the 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!
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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