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For myself, I have always regarded that production as of the first importance in our recent history.
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Sumner reflects on the significance of a particular legislative act in American history.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
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