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The Chicago platform may be seen in two aspects,--first, in what it does say, and, secondly, in what it does not say.
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Sumner analyzes the Chicago platform by discussing both its affirmations and omissions regarding the war and slavery.
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It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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