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It is our present duty to find the moral of the stupendous drama.
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He calls for reflection on the moral lessons to be learned from significant historical events.
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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.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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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