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In logic, in illustration, in simplicity of truth, I have never read a state-paper that equals it.
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Sumner praises a state-paper for its logical clarity and truthfulness.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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