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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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!
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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