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Such, Sir, is the indifference with which the Senate treats the rights of an oppressed people!
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Sumner criticizes the Senate for its indifference towards the rights of oppressed individuals.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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