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Is it not worth our care to provide against such calamity?
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Sumner questions the importance of taking precautions against potential disasters.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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.
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