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Nothing like it, in elevation of tone and width of scope, had ever before been heard in that Chamber.
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Sumner notes the unprecedented nature of his speech in the Senate chamber.
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It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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