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I need not praise him, I need not eulogize him; but I will simply say, it is CHARLES SUMNER.
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Sumner acknowledges his own identity and significance in a public address.
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Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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