There are provisions, as I said this morning, for the safeguard of naturalization, which I value much; but how small in value, compared with the establishment of that great principle which fixes forevermore the fundamental idea of the Republic!
Sumner contrasts the importance of naturalization provisions with the fundamental principles of the Republic.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Without yielding to any of these extreme views with regard to the mischiefs or the benefits of party, all should agree that the only true and legitimate object of such an association is to uphold, advance, and develop certain principles…
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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