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The present struggle can expect nothing but detestation from all not lost to duty and honor, while the people of France must cover it with curses.
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Sumner asserts that the current struggle for slavery will be met with disdain from honorable people.
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It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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