On the record
As it began in no other way, so it can end in no other way.
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Sumner insists that the only way to conclude the Rebellion is through the complete abolition of slavery.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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