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To take this right away from any portion of our fellow-subjects--even if you say they are not fellow-citizens--will be barbarous.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner argues that denying the right of petition to any group is an act of barbarism, regardless of their citizenship status.
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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.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
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