And now this same disloyal party, once against the greenback, insist upon continuing in peace what was justified only in war,--insist upon a forced loan, when the overruling exigencies of self-defence have ceased, and the nation is saved.
Sumner condemns the disloyal party for wanting to maintain wartime financial measures in peacetime, arguing that the nation has moved past the need for such measures.
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