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But, even with these precautions, privateering is usually accompanied by abuses and enormous excesses.
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Sumner acknowledges that even with regulations, privateering often leads to significant abuses.
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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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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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