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Is it frivolous, when I see the flag of my country prostituted to an act of wrong?
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Sumner expresses his concern about the misuse of the American flag in acts of wrongdoing.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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