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The victory of the war is vain without the grander victory through which the Republic is dedicated to the axiomatic, self-evident truth declared by our fathers, and reasserted by Abraham Lincoln.
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Sumner reflects on the importance of a moral victory that aligns with the ideals of the Republic and Lincoln's legacy.
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