It stands before us, a colossal image of International Justice, with the sword, but without the scales,--like a hideous Mexican idol, besmeared with human blood, and surrounded by the sickening stench of human sacrifice.
Sumner vividly depicts the image of International Justice as flawed and bloodied by war.
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Without yielding to any of these extreme views with regard to the mischiefs or the benefits of party, all should agree that the only true and legitimate object of such an association is to uphold, advance, and develop certain principles…
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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.
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