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To maintain the Republic in its unity, and the people in their rights,--such is this transcendent duty.
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Sumner identifies maintaining national unity and protecting people's rights as a paramount duty.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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