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Sitting in our seats here, we are a mighty police, ready at the call of general or citizen, and also a terror to the evil-doer.
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Sumner describes the Senate as a powerful force ready to respond to calls for justice and order.
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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.
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.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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