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Our country must live in the atmosphere of those resolutions, or bear no life worth having.
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Sumner stresses the necessity of living by the principles of the resolutions for a meaningful national existence.
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Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
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