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I am unwilling that Emancipation shall depend upon the will of any one man, be he Senator or President.
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Sumner expresses his belief that Emancipation should not be contingent on any single individual's decision.
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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.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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