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Strange and disgraceful as all this is, it must be considered the natural fruit of Slavery.
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Sumner critiques the consequences of slavery, emphasizing its disgraceful nature.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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