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Fellow-citizens, it cannot be doubted that this great question, so long as it continues pending, will be a cloud always upon the relations of two friendly powers, when there should be sunshine.
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Sumner warns that unresolved issues will cloud relations between the U.S. and England.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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