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And now, thank God, the word is spoken!--greater word was seldom spoken.
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This quote reflects Sumner's gratitude for a significant moment in the fight for emancipation.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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