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Sumner’s oration, we see nothing on every side but a melancholy spectacle of impotent violence and furious incapacity.
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Sumner laments the overall state of American political discourse, describing it as a spectacle of failure.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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