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Alas, that he did not see the infinite debt of friendship, kindness, and protection due to that people, so that instead of monitors and war-ships, breathing violence, he had sent a messenger of peace and good-will!
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Sumner wishes the President had chosen peace over aggression towards the African race.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
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