On the record
I repeat, that General Lee and Wade Hampton are the two most popular and best loved men in the South to-day.
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Sumner identifies General Lee and Wade Hampton as the most popular figures in the South.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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.
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