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sermon he preached at the time of the attack on Fort Wagner, said: “The mere conflict of brute forces is so much murder and slaughter, and nothing more.
Whichever side is victorious, there is cause for humiliation, and not for thanksgiving.
But in the great conflict of ideas, of civilization against barbarism, of universal emancipation against the slavery of a race, it were a shame not to see the sword of God's mighty angel flashing like sunbeams over the field, and lighting our way to a glorious future.”
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