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Our own standards, derived from England, are of an equally fanciful character.
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Sumner critiques the fanciful nature of measurement standards derived from England.
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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.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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