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The Senator from Missouri has already exposed this apparent dereliction of duty, which in its excess ended in actually disarming the country, so as to impair its defensive capacity.
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Sumner criticizes a senator for exposing a failure in duty that weakened national defense.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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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