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Surely, Sir, if ever there was occasion for the exercise of this right, the time had come in Kansas.
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Sumner believes that the situation in Kansas warranted the exercise of rights to resist oppression.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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