Charles Sumner: “Waiving, then, these matters, with their perplexities and difficulties, which do not in any respect belong to the cause…”

“Waiving, then, these matters, with their perplexities and difficulties, which do not in any respect belong to the cause, I come now to the precise object we hope to accomplish,--The Abolition of the Institution of War, and of the whole War System, as an established Arbiter of Justice in the Commonwealth of Nations.”