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Beware of that state, yet more unnatural than slavery itself, liberty bestowed by halves.
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Sumner cautions against a partial freedom that is more harmful than slavery itself.
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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.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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