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Giddings, strong in consciousness of right, knew the dignity of his position.
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Sumner praises Giddings for his moral conviction and understanding of the importance of his role in the fight for justice.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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