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There was no such duty on our fathers, there was no such duty on recent predecessors in this Chamber, because there was no President of the United States who had become the enemy of his country.
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Sumner argues that previous generations did not face the same urgent duty due to the absence of a hostile President.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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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