This enormity, vast beyond comparison, swells to dimensions of crime which the imagination toils in vain to grasp, when it is understood that for this purpose are hazarded the horrors of intestine feud, not only in this distant Territory, but everywhere throughout the country.
Sumner describes the vast consequences of a crime that threatens civil peace across the nation.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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