And now, Sir, in the name of that Public Faith which is the very ligament of civil society, and which the great Roman orator tells us it is detestable to break even with an enemy, I arraign this scheme, and hold it up to the judgment of the country.
Sumner invokes the concept of Public Faith to criticize the breaking of agreements in civil society.
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