They are to prove to the world, by the fact, that men can be free and tranquil, and can dispense with the chains of all kinds which the tyrants and charlatans of every cloth have pretended to impose under the pretext of the public good.
Sumner asserts that people can achieve freedom and tranquility without oppressive systems.
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His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
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