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As War with its deeds is infinitely evil and accursed, so will this triumph of Permanent Peace be infinitely beneficent and blessed.
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Sumner contrasts the evils of war with the blessings of permanent peace, advocating for a peaceful future.
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It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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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