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If I refer to this example, it is because I would illustrate the mischief of the Democratic policy and summon Mississippi to tardy justice.
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Sumner uses Mississippi's example to illustrate the harmful effects of Democratic policies.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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