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The most complete and permanent substitute would be a Congress of Nations, with a High Court of Judicature.
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Sumner advocates for a Congress of Nations as a solution to prevent war.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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