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The ties formed between slaves are all subject to the selfish interests or more selfish lust of the master, whose license knows no check.
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Sumner highlights the vulnerability of familial ties among slaves to the whims of their masters.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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