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But the slave is exposed to such corrupting power less than a white person.
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Sumner claims that slaves are less susceptible to corrupting influences compared to white individuals.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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