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Slavery takes from its victim the hard-earned fruits of his toil.
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Sumner condemns slavery for robbing individuals of the rewards of their labor.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
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.
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