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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in public museums, just as an instrument of torture is now, and people will be astonished how such a thing could have been.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in public museums, just as an instrument of torture is now, and people…”
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Sumner predicts a time when weapons of war will be seen as relics of a barbaric past.
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