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Men slaughter each other with almost perfect impunity.
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Sumner laments the impunity with which men kill each other, highlighting a failure of justice.
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They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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