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It is to the Union party of the North that we are to-day indebted for being able to live here.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner emphasizes the importance of the Union party in ensuring the survival of the nation during a tumultuous period.
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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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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