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No intelligent person, careful and honest in his statements, will undertake to say that either of them does represent these.
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Sumner states that no honest person can claim that certain parties represent the important principles they uphold.
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In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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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