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Fortifications are instruments, and standing armies are hired champions, in the great Duel of Nations.
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Sumner metaphorically describes fortifications and armies as tools in the conflict between nations.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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