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But I trust the Senate will not reconsider what they have done, but that they will settle this great question so that it shall never again disturb our debates.
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Sumner hopes that the Senate will not reverse their decision on a significant issue.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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