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With the overthrow of the Rebellion on the bloody field this pretension should have been abandoned and forgotten.
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Sumner asserts that the defeat of the Rebellion should have ended certain pretensions of states.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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