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Slavery had no sanctity for him, and he insisted upon striking it.
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Sumner expresses his firm stance against the institution of slavery.
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Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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