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This Federal Republic is born a pygmy, so to speak.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner metaphorically describes the newly formed Federal Republic as small and weak at its inception.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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