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The principle, however, upon which I found the necessity of abolition is not Policy but Justice.
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The speaker says abolition is necessary because justice demands it, not because it is merely a useful or effective policy. This places moral rightness above practical advantage. The argument is that ending the unnamed institution should be treated as a matter of justice, regardless of whether doing so serves a particular political goal.
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