Here he remarked, that he did not understand a war measure which was to go into effect ten years from now,--that he did not understand a gradual war measure,--that it was an absurdity in terms, and utterly indefensible.
Sumner critiques the idea of a gradual implementation of war measures as nonsensical.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
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.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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