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So long as men are in peril whose only offence is that they love the Nation, or that their skins are not “white,” the Rebellion still exists.
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Sumner argues that as long as individuals face danger for their loyalty to the nation or their race, the rebellion persists.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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