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Statesmen and judges, publicists and authors, with names of authority in American history, espouse and vindicate the American principle.
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Sumner emphasizes the support of influential figures for American principles in history.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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