Nobody more completely than myself can appreciate the importance of bending every corporal and intellectual agent to the work of putting down the Rebellion; but I am unwilling that meanwhile all the glorious and beneficent arts of peace should slumber.
Sumner emphasizes the importance of balancing military efforts with the preservation of peaceful pursuits during the Civil War.
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