His emancipation, promoted by the aspirations, the prayers, and the express intervention of our Republic, is an example to all nations,--while the brightness of his fame shows how vain it is for any earthly edict to stigmatize as crime a sincere and generous effort for Human Freedom.
Sumner emphasizes the significance of Kossuth's emancipation as a symbol of human freedom and justice.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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