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The tendency of that speech is to show that it is not this or that measure merely we have to contend with, but the monster Slavery.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
This quote reflects Sumner's belief that the fight against slavery is a broader struggle against a pervasive evil.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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