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In whichever light you read it, you will find always the same irresistible meaning.
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Sumner asserts that regardless of the perspective, the Constitution conveys a consistent and powerful message.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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