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It is Slavery that marshals these hosts and breathes into their embattled ranks its own barbarous fire.
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Sumner claims that slavery energizes and organizes the opposing forces in the conflict.
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Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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