Public policy and the ends of justice require that the punishment for a criminal offence should, in every case, be exclusively subject to the supreme pardoning power, without dependence upon the will of any private person.
Sumner emphasizes the importance of the President's exclusive power to grant pardons in the pursuit of justice.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
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