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If the principle now announced here is to prevail, let us come armed for the combat; and although you are four to one, I am here to meet you.
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Sumner boldly challenges his opponents, asserting his readiness for confrontation despite being outnumbered.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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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