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Alas for that peace and reconciliation, the longing of good men, now postponed!
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Sumner reflects on the postponement of peace and reconciliation that many desire.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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.
It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
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