Condemning the War System as barbarous and most wasteful, the token and relic of a society alien to Christian civilization, we except the Navy, so far as necessary in arrest of pirates, of traffickers in human flesh, and generally in preserving the police of the sea.
Sumner condemns the War System while acknowledging the necessity of a navy for certain humanitarian purposes.
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