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I hope that the Senator will reconsider his judgment, that he will see that we cannot treat the pending proposition with the levity--he will pardon me--with which he treated it.
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Sumner urges a colleague to take the pending resolution more seriously than he has previously done.
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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.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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