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Such an act cannot be otherwise than honorable to the United States.
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Sumner claims that returning the fund will reflect honorably on the United States.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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