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Even now, while I speak, portents lower in the horizon, threatening to darken the land, which already palpitates with the mutterings of civil war.
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Sumner warns of impending dangers that could lead to civil war, reflecting the tense atmosphere of the time.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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