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Then would our camps become nurseries of freemen, and every common soldier a chain-breaker, while Slavery shrunk out of sight.
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Sumner envisions military camps transforming into places of freedom, where soldiers actively oppose slavery.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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