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Besides, the Antislavery Enterprise is right; and the right is always practicable.
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Sumner asserts the righteousness of the antislavery movement and its feasibility.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
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.
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