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If the enemies against whom we now wage war were not our own fellow-citizens, if they were aliens unhappily fastened for the time on our territory, there would be no fine-spun question of constitutional immunity.
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Sumner reflects on the implications of waging war against fellow citizens versus foreign enemies.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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