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I use that language purposely, and I stand by it, even at the expense of the criticism of the Senator from Iowa.
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Sumner stands firm on his strong language regarding the constitution, despite potential backlash from his peers.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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.
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.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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