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I would ask any reasonable man, Is the sending a slave of any of our farms to the Penitentiary a punishment?
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Sumner questions the logic behind considering imprisonment a punishment for slaves, highlighting their lack of freedom.
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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.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
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