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The noisome, squat, and nameless animal to which I now refer is not the proper model for an American Senator.
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Sumner uses a metaphor to argue that certain behaviors are unworthy of a senator.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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