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Such is my confidence in the resources of our country, in the industry of its people, and in the grandeur of its destinies, that I cannot doubt the transcendent future.
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Sumner expresses unwavering confidence in the future prosperity of the nation.
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Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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