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Even the soil, now so productive, would refuse its increase; for Nature herself would cease to smile amidst the alarms of servile war.
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This quote illustrates Sumner's belief that the threat of servile war would have dire consequences for the land itself.
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Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
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.
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