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Here permit me to say, that, if anybody is driven from anywhere, it will not be the loyal citizen, whether old or new.
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Sumner asserts that loyal citizens will not be the ones driven away from their homes.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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.
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