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The Senator makes a mistake, when he deals his blow in the very Temple of Justice.
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Sumner criticizes a senator for undermining justice in a significant way, referring to the 'Temple of Justice.'
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
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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