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There is another field, where the battle is bloodless, but scarcely less important: I mean the field of finance.
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Sumner highlights the significance of financial matters in the broader context of the war.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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