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Sumner highlights the potential loss of capital when interest rates are artificially lowered.

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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.

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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.

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More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!

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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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