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At last the time has come when their cause must prevail, and their name become an honor.
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Sumner expresses a hopeful sentiment about the eventual triumph of a just cause.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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