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If I could forget the course of the Democracy on these things,--as I cannot,--there is still another chapter for exposure; and the more it is seen, the worse it appears.
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Sumner expresses his inability to forget the Democratic Party's actions and warns of further exposure of their wrongdoings.
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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.
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.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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