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Massachusetts, through you, will have fresh title to respect, and be once more, as in times past, an example to the whole land.
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Sumner expresses hope that Massachusetts will regain its reputation as a leader in justice and respect for all.
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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.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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