The advanced ideas of the author are constantly conspicuous, making him foremost among contemporaries in discerning the questions of the future.
Editor's note · Context
Sumner highlights the author's progressive ideas and their relevance to future societal questions.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Without yielding to any of these extreme views with regard to the mischiefs or the benefits of party, all should agree that the only true and legitimate object of such an association is to uphold, advance, and develop certain principles…
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.





