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It may teach us all, though few in numbers or alone, never, by word or act, to swerve from those primal principles of duty, which, from the landing on Plymouth Rock, have been the life of Massachusetts.
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Sumner highlights the enduring principles of duty that have guided Massachusetts since its founding.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
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