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He spoke, and with a voice that had been silent for a generation bravely recalled the sacred cause of which he was the veteran, and that tri-color flag which was the symbol of Liberty, Equality, and Public Order.
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Sumner describes a powerful moment when a veteran of liberty passionately recalls the ideals of freedom.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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