Do this; help in this way the final settlement of the national troubles; pass this bill of peace,--for such it will be, giving repose in all the Northern States,--and in this way help establish repose in all the rest of the country.
Sumner calls for the passage of a peace bill, emphasizing its potential to bring stability to the nation after the Civil War.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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