This General, professing to fight the battle of the Constitution with the commission of the Republic, speaks of “the concealment of slaves” in the same class with “pillaging, marauding, and stealing.” I complain of this confusion of language, showing an insensibility to human rights.
Sumner criticizes the conflation of human rights with criminal actions in military orders.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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