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The country has suffered in good name, while foreign nations have pointed with scorn to a republic which could legalize such indecencies.
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Sumner argues that the United States has damaged its reputation internationally by allowing slavery to persist, inviting scorn from other nations.
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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.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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