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To me it is unintelligible as painful that the Senator should interfere to save any such inhumanity.
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Sumner expresses confusion and pain over a senator's defense of what he considers inhumanity.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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.
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