On the record
For them it will be a record of shame, which their children would gladly blot out with tears.
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He reflects on how foreign powers' actions regarding slavery will be viewed by future generations.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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