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Slavery exists in any country only by municipal law,--in no country by the jus gentium.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner argues that slavery is only upheld by local laws and not by international law.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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