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Where is national honor, that the criminal pettifoggers are not indignantly rebuked?
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Sumner expresses outrage at the lack of rebuke for those who would support slavery, highlighting a failure of national honor.
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Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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