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Even the royal manifesto gives no sanction to the fitting out in England of a naval expedition against the commerce of the United States.
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Sumner asserts that even a royal manifesto does not authorize hostile actions against U.S. commerce.
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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.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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