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And now the moment has come when these vows must be fulfilled to the letter.
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Sumner calls for the fulfillment of the promises made by the Founding Fathers.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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!
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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