PRESIDENT,--The Senator from New York has chosen to make an assault on me to-day, because, in the discharge of my duties, I do not see my duty as he sees his duty,--because on this Fourth day of July I choose to stand by the Declaration of our fathers.
Sumner defends his actions and principles against criticism from a fellow Senator.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
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