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If such criticism does not proceed from sympathy with Slavery, it evidently proceeds from prevailing superstition with regard to this idol.
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Sumner critiques criticisms of the Proclamation, suggesting they stem from a misunderstanding of slavery's moral implications.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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