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They believe in Slavery more or less, and will not do anything to remove it or to mitigate its terrible curse.
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Sumner asserts that some senators believe in slavery and resist efforts to alleviate its impact, reflecting the ongoing struggle for civil rights.
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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.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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