It involves the question, whether after all our boasted civilization, our Declaration of Independence, our matchless Constitution, our sublime Christianity, our wise statesmanship, we as a people, possess virtue enough to solve this problem in accordance with wisdom and justice, and to the advantage of both races.
This quote raises fundamental questions about the nation's moral capacity to address social issues justly.
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I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.
True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.
The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.