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The Republic, with matchless energy, hurled forward victorious armies: the Republic must exact that “security for the future” without which this unparalleled war will have been waged in vain.
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Sumner calls for the Republic to ensure future security after the sacrifices made during the war.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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