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Who is not saddened at the thought of precious lives given to Liberty’s defence?
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Sumner expresses sorrow over the loss of lives in the fight for liberty, highlighting the human cost of war.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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