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PRESIDENT,--I rejoice in every enterprise by which human industry is quickened and distant places are brought near together.
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Sumner expresses his support for initiatives that enhance human connectivity and progress through infrastructure.
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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.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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