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This is a great victory of the war,--perhaps the greatest.
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Sumner describes the abolition of slavery as a significant achievement resulting from the Civil War.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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