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If you hesitate for want of precedent, then do I appeal to the great principle of American Institutions.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of adhering to foundational American principles in decision-making.
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As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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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