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God grant you success in preventing here a precedent that may lead to irretrievable mischief!
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Sumner expresses a hope for success in preventing harmful precedents in legal decisions.
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Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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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