I defend it in all respects,--not only as an act of essential justice, without which our Nation would be a deformity, but as an irresistible necessity, for the sake of that security without which peace is impossible.
Sumner defends the Reconstruction measure as both a necessary act of justice and a prerequisite for lasting peace.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
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