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The calamities of war with Spain, incalculably disastrous to the commerce of New York and Boston, are all to be braved in order to appropriate slaveholding Cuba.
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Sumner critiques the consequences of the Spanish-American War in relation to slavery and commerce.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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