Charles Sumner: “This contest is no holiday battle, but the irrepressible conflict…”

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This contest is no holiday battle, but the irrepressible conflict between Right and Wrong.

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Sumner describes the ongoing struggle between good and evil as a serious and essential conflict, not a trivial matter.

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His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

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Charles Sumner: “This contest is no holiday battle, but the irrepressible conflict between Right and Wrong.”