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There, Sir, you come in conflict with the fundamental principle of republican institutions.
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He asserts that excluding military officers from civil service contradicts fundamental republican principles.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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