So, among the Nations, all violence, and especially all belligerent intervention, should be forbidden by International Law; and I trust the day is not far distant when this prohibition will be maintained by the Federation of Christian States, with an executive power too mighty for any contumacious resistance.
Sumner advocates for the prohibition of violence among nations, calling for a strong international law to uphold peace.
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