From this time the debate will proceed, and what is said here will find its echoes and reverberations throughout the whole land and be returned to us from the Pacific coast, never to die out until the good cause prevails and all the promises of the Fathers are fulfilled.
Sumner predicts that the outcomes of their debates will resonate across the nation and influence future generations.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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