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The Committees of Congress, where Slavery now rules,--Congress itself, and the Cabinet also,--would all be organized for Freedom.
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Sumner envisions a Congress and Cabinet organized to promote freedom instead of slavery.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
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