With heavenly generosity he had turned away from his own country to help the cause of Freedom in another hemisphere, and here he found man despoiled of all personal rights, and even degraded to be property, by those whose own struggles merely for political rights had thrilled the fibres of his being.
Sumner describes the selflessness of an individual who chose to aid the cause of freedom in a foreign land.
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