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There are thousands ready to see the present Government blotted out in blood and chaos rather than see the old curse reinstated.
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Sumner warns of the extreme sentiments among the populace regarding the government's actions during the Civil War.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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