We are Senators of the United States, bound to consider the whole country in all its extent, and to do nothing here which shall do mischief elsewhere; nor can we yield to any local pressure, or any imagined local interests, and thus forget the cause of justice.
Sumner stresses the responsibility of Senators to consider the nation's justice rather than local interests.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
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