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There, too, are the great ideas of Freedom involved in this war.
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Sumner asserts that the war involves significant principles of freedom.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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