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Sumner replied at once, "Then let the Senator say the immoral courage.
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Sumner cleverly counters a senator's remark by questioning their moral stance.
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Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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.
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