I simply ask a new safeguard for the future, that these States, through which so much trouble has come, may be a strength and a blessing to our common country, with prosperity and happiness everywhere within their borders.
Sumner calls for safeguards to ensure that troubled states contribute positively to the nation.
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Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
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