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We should not give him a day; we should not give him five minutes,--I am ready to say that,--not five minutes, for the chance of illegitimate power.
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Sumner emphasizes the urgency of not allowing any time for potential misuse of power by a political figure.
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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.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
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