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And shall we be less perspicacious for Freedom than this Virginia statesman for Slavery?
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Sumner challenges the audience to be as insightful for freedom as Patrick Henry was for slavery.
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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.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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