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The words of truth and wisdom which you have spoken cannot fail to command the attention and respect of the statesmen of England as well as of this country.
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Sumner acknowledges the importance of truthful and wise words in influencing statesmen in both England and America.
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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.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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