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If you ask for authority under the Constitution, I cannot doubt that it is in the War Power.
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Sumner asserts that the authority to act against rebellion is found within the War Power of the Constitution.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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