But Athens,--even at Salamis, repelling the Persian host, or afterwards, in the golden days of Pericles,--and Scotland, throughout her long struggle with England, down to the very Act of Union at the beginning of the last century,--were each inferior, in population and wealth, to Massachusetts at this moment.
Sumner argues that despite their historical struggles, Athens and Scotland were smaller than Massachusetts in terms of population and wealth.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
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