I know not that the powerful religious denomination befriended by him in its infancy has ever sympathized with the great effort by which his name is exalted; but they should at least repel the weak imputation, so often levelled against all who are steadfast against Slavery, that their benefactor was "a man of one idea.
Sumner critiques the perception that abolitionists are one-dimensional thinkers, defending the complexity of their motivations.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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