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Fellow-citizens, I deny this pretension in every respect and at every point.
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Sumner firmly rejects claims that support the expansion of slavery, asserting his position against it.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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