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What other belligerent menace may not be hurled?
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Sumner expresses alarm over the threats posed by belligerent actions.
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Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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