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If you have money to commemorate the dead, let it be in honor of the defenders of Liberty gathered to their fathers.
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Sumner advocates for honoring those who fought for liberty rather than those who upheld oppression.
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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.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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