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I am so much of a Republican that I wish to see in the Presidential chair a life-time Abolitionist.
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Sumner expresses his desire for a president who is committed to abolitionism, reflecting his strong Republican values.
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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.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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