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I know the generous heart of the Senator; and I know that he could not hesitate, did he really see this great grievance.
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Sumner expresses confidence in the senator's character and ability to recognize a significant grievance if he truly understood it.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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