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They did not feel the inconvenience of the tax, but they felt its oppression.
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Sumner notes that the oppression felt by the colonists was more significant than the actual inconvenience of the tax.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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.
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