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The small sum which you vote will be a precedent for millions.
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Sumner warns that even a small financial decision can set a significant precedent.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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