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With modesty, and yet with firmness, let me add, Sir, it offends against the Divine Law.
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Sumner asserts that the Slave Act also violates divine principles.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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