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From war, pestilence, and famine, from all assaults of the world, the flesh, and the Devil, good Lord, deliver us,--but most especially from any compromise with traitors, or any bargain with Slavery!
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Sumner calls for deliverance from various evils, emphasizing his rejection of any compromise with traitors or slavery.
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Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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