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From Alabama pass to Mississippi, and there the same hideous scenes are renewed.
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Sumner highlights the continuation of violence and chaos in Mississippi, drawing parallels to Alabama.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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