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They were resolved, if a tyrant attempted to trample upon the rights of the sovereign people, to hang him.
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Sumner asserts the resolve of the people to resist tyranny, emphasizing their commitment to defending their rights.
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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.
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.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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.
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