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I desire to repeat my unalterable conviction that these cruelties cannot be retaliated in kind.
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Sumner expresses his firm belief that retaliatory cruelties cannot be justified.
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Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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