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For the sake of the freedman, for the sake of his former master, for the sake of all, and for the sake of the Republic, this must not be.
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Sumner stresses the importance of preventing certain actions for the benefit of freedmen and the Republic as a whole.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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