Charles Sumner: “The threat of disunion, too often sounded in our ears, will be disregarded by an aroused and indignant people.”

They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.

According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.

It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.

Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.