Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power delivered down From age to age by your renowned forefathers, So dearly bought, the price of so much blood: Oh, let it never perish in your hands!
Sumner calls upon his friends to remember the sacrifices made for their rights and the importance of preserving them.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
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