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Grant that the Legion was constituted, can you extract from it any Apology for the original Crime, or for its present ratification?
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Sumner challenges the justification of the original crime by questioning the legitimacy of the Legion's existence.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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