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Retaliation should be limited to such punishments as may be requisite for our own safety and the good of society; beyond this it cannot be justified.
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Sumner argues that retaliation in war should be limited to what is necessary for safety and societal good.
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Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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