Or, worse still, it will be the soulless monster of Frankenstein, the wretched creation of human science without God,--endowed with life and nothing else, forever raging madly, the scandal to humanity, powerful only for evil, whose destruction will be essential to the peace of the world.
Sumner likens slavery to a monstrous creation that is inherently evil and a threat to humanity.
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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.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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