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Leaving it a prey to lawless adventure, you will only increase the difficulties of dealing with a region so vast and so remote.
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Sumner warns against leaving a region ungoverned, which could lead to lawlessness.
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Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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