But,” said I, “you should resign rather than do this thing.” This I could not refrain from remarking, on discovery, from dispatches in the State Department, that the usurper Baez was maintained in power by our Navy.
Sumner expresses his strong belief that one should resign rather than support an unjust action.
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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
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Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
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