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The present bill, I fear, has none of these qualities which we desire at this time.
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Sumner expresses concern that the current bill lacks the necessary qualities for effective reform.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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