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Unless Freedom be an illusion, and Benevolence an error, you cannot resist the appeal.
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Sumner challenges the audience to acknowledge the importance of freedom and benevolence in their actions.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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