Mark, while a sublimer cause is ours than the cause of the Crusaders; for our task is not to ransom an empty sepulchre, but to rescue the Saviour himself, in the bodies of his innumerable children,--not to dislodge the Infidel from a distant foreign soil, but to displace him from the very Jerusalem of our Liberties.
Sumner draws a powerful analogy between the Crusades and the fight for liberty in America.
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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.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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