Thus, in every department connected with our Common Schools, throughout the whole hierarchy of their government, from the very head of the system down to the humblest usher in the humblest Primary School, and to the humblest voter, there is no distinction of color known to the law.
Sumner asserts that the law does not recognize racial distinctions in the governance of public schools.
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I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
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