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Would that all of us understood and laid to heart the true nature of that career and that destiny, and the responsibility it imposes.
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Sumner calls for a deeper understanding of the responsibilities tied to one's actions and destiny.
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Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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!
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