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Can’t we enlist bold men enough to lay the foundation of a party to take the helm of this Government and keep it off the rocks?
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Sumner expresses a call for strong leadership to guide the government away from potential failure.
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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.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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