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Thus has the tendency to Unity predominated over independent sovereignties and states, slowly conducting the constant process of crystallization.
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Sumner argues that the tendency towards unity has triumphed over independent states throughout history.
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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!
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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