I am glad, my friends, to see so large an audience assembled for the purpose of hearing one of our most accomplished scholars and orators discourse on a subject lying apart from the ordinary strifes and immediate interests of the day.
Sumner welcomes a large audience to hear a distinguished speaker on a significant topic.
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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.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
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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