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 | | Increase of population, which is filling the states out to their very borders, together with a new and extended network of railroads and other avenues, and an internal commerce which daily becomes more intimate, is rapidly bringing the states into a higher and more perfect social unity or consolidation. |
 | | In addition to other wounds, Sumner suffered from brain damage and required a lengthy recuperation, and Sumner's seat was kept empty as a sign of southern aggression. |
 | | However, these events did occur, and William H. Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State, attempted to avert the Civil War by exchanging a fort for a state, even by suggesting that he provoke a war with France, England, and Spain in order to unite the nation in a common cause. |
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