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He is gone; but these virtues “smell sweet and blossom in the dust.
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Sumner reflects on the enduring virtues of a deceased senator, suggesting their lasting impact.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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