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I would not impose a burden even upon those who have trespassed so much against the Republic.
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Sumner expresses his reluctance to impose burdens even on those who have wronged the Republic.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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