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The Slavemongers may be a corporation in fact, but no such corporation can find place in that august Commonwealth.
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Sumner argues that slaveholders cannot be part of the ideal community of nations.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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