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It is not a measure of Abolition or Antislavery, or of philanthropy, but a war measure, pure and simple.
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Sumner clarifies that the Emancipation Proclamation is strictly a war measure, not a philanthropic act.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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