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Look at them, and you will confess that this institution stands forth as a hateful assemblage of unquestionable wrongs under sanction of existing law.
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Sumner condemns slavery as a morally repugnant institution that is legally sanctioned.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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