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Ay, Sir, there is nothing in the Constitution to sanction any such outrage.
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Sumner states that the Constitution does not support the institution of slavery.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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.
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