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Some of his most devoted labors, commencing in the Legislature of Massachusetts, were for the Abolition of Capital Punishment.
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Sumner reflects on his legislative efforts to abolish capital punishment in Massachusetts.
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As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
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.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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