Charles Sumner: “I show you a way, simple and certain, by which receipts will be assured, while business is simplified.”

Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.

Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.

I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.

It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.