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The Missouri Compact, in its unperformed obligations to Freedom, stands at this day as impregnable as the Louisiana purchase.
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Sumner asserts that the Missouri Compact's obligations to freedom remain strong and unbroken, likening it to the significance of the Louisiana Purchase.
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Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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