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It gives me a pang; but it cannot make me change convictions springing from the very depths of conscience,--nor my course.
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Sumner expresses his unwavering commitment to his beliefs despite personal pain.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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