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Thus do I exhibit the extent of the present contest, where we encounter not merely local resistance, but also the unconquered sustaining arm behind.
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Sumner outlines the broader struggle against not just local resistance but a powerful force behind it.
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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.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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