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But a peace founded on the killing of a king is not so bad as a peace founded on the killing of Liberty; nor can the saddest scenes of such a peace be so sad as the daily life legalized by Slavery.
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Sumner compares the moral implications of peace achieved through violence against liberty to historical instances of regicide.
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