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Rejoice that under him “government of the people, by the people, and for the people” obtained a final verdict never to be set aside or questioned.
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Sumner highlights the enduring significance of government by the people as a fundamental principle.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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