Therefore, should our cases be reversed, there is nothing England and France now propose, or may hereafter propose, which it will not be our equal right to propose, when Ireland or India once more rebels, or when France is in the throes of its next revolution.
Sumner warns that if the roles were reversed, the U.S. would have equal rights to intervene in foreign conflicts, highlighting the hypocrisy of imperial powers.
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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.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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