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Charles Sumner: “But if War be thus odious, if it be the Duel of Nations, if it be the old surviving Trial by Battle, then must its…”

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But if War be thus odious, if it be the Duel of Nations, if it be the old surviving Trial by Battle, then must its unquestionable barbarism affect all its incidents, all its machinery, all its enginery, together with all who sanction it, and all who have any part or lot in it,--in fine, the whole vast System.
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Charles Sumner
Massachusetts

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Sumner argues that the barbarism of war affects all its aspects and those involved in it.

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