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The ballot is peacemaker; and is it not said, “Blessed are the peacemakers”?
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The ballot is peacemaker; and is it not said, “Blessed are the peacemakers”?”
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He describes the ballot as a tool for peace, linking it to a biblical principle of peacemaking.
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