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In the face of the National Constitution, interpreted, first by itself, and then by the Declaration of Independence, how can this pretension prevail?
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Sumner questions how any pretension of racial discrimination can stand against the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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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