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Thus are we prompted to their rescue, not only to save them, but also to save ourselves.
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Sumner calls for action to rescue those oppressed by slavery, framing it as a necessity for both them and ourselves.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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.
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