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The German emigrant who is not against Slavery here leads us to doubt the sincerity of his opposition to the Tyranny he has left behind in his native land.
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Sumner questions the sincerity of German emigrants who do not oppose slavery in America, linking it to their past experiences.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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