Now the greatest victory of the war, to which all other victories, whether in Congress or on the bloody field, were only tributary, was the definition of a republican government according to the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
He argues that defining a republican government is the greatest achievement of the Civil War.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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