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... Look at the loss occasioned in the single department of commerce . This main source of wealth war dries up , and exposes to capture an incalculable amount of property on the ocean . Our exports and imports now ( 1836 ) exceed two ...
... Look at the loss occasioned in the single department of commerce . This main source of wealth war dries up , and exposes to capture an incalculable amount of property on the ocean . Our exports and imports now ( 1836 ) exceed two ...
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... look at the enormous expenditures of war . Those of our last war have been variously estimated ; but they could not have been less than forty or fifty millions of dol- lars every year . Our revolutionary war cost England six hundred ...
... look at the enormous expenditures of war . Those of our last war have been variously estimated ; but they could not have been less than forty or fifty millions of dol- lars every year . Our revolutionary war cost England six hundred ...
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... look with confidence to a gradual revolution in the state of pub- lic opinion from the omnipotence of gospel truth working its silent but effectual way through the families of mankind , yet much may be done to accelerate the advent of ...
... look with confidence to a gradual revolution in the state of pub- lic opinion from the omnipotence of gospel truth working its silent but effectual way through the families of mankind , yet much may be done to accelerate the advent of ...
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... look at war in the light of revelation . Thou shalt have no other gods before me . War contra- venes all such precepts . It sprang from paganism ; its spirit is essentially pagan still ; and its laws every where re- quire soldiers to ...
... look at war in the light of revelation . Thou shalt have no other gods before me . War contra- venes all such precepts . It sprang from paganism ; its spirit is essentially pagan still ; and its laws every where re- quire soldiers to ...
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... Look at the French butcheries in Spain or Portugal under Napoleon . Peaceful inhabitants massacred without distinction or mercy ! " Often were the ditches along the line of their march , " says an eye - witness , " literally filled with ...
... Look at the French butcheries in Spain or Portugal under Napoleon . Peaceful inhabitants massacred without distinction or mercy ! " Often were the ditches along the line of their march , " says an eye - witness , " literally filled with ...
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AMERICAN PEACE SOCIETY Apostles argument arms army battle bayonet benevolence blessing blood cause of peace century character Chris Christ Christendom Christian church civil common crime custom dead death defence destroy disputes duty earth enemies England Europe evil father favor fight fire forbearance France French friends of peace glory gospel Greece hands heart heathen heaven honor horrors human hundred idolatry individuals influence justice kill land lawfulness of war less lives mankind mass means ment military millions mind misery missionaries Moloch moral murder Napoleon nations nature navy never object officer pacific pagan passions perish precepts Prince of Peace principles profession punishment Quakers reason religion religion of peace Resist not evil rulers Russia savage says sentiment ships slaughter soldiers soul Spain spirit suffering sword Tatian TERTULLIAN thing thou thousand tion truth violence virtue war-system warrior wars whole wounded wrong