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To sustain Slavery, it is now proposed to trample on free speech.
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Sumner warns that supporting slavery requires suppressing free speech.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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.
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