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It is in vain that you undertake to set aside the perpetual obligation which you have assumed.
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Sumner argues against the idea of dismissing obligations, emphasizing their perpetual nature.
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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.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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