These proceedings determine on the one side the question of Property, and on the other the sacred question of Personal Liberty in its most transcendent form,--Liberty not merely for a day or a year, but for life, and the Liberty of generations that shall come after, so long as Slavery endures.
Sumner argues that the proceedings in question address both property rights and the fundamental issue of personal liberty.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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