Charles Sumner: “Likewise confidence is returned for confidence, good-will for…”

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Likewise confidence is returned for confidence, good-will for good-will, friendship for friendship.

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Sumner highlights the reciprocal nature of trust and goodwill in relationships.

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In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.

Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.

The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.

They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.

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Charles Sumner: “Likewise confidence is returned for confidence, good-will for good-will, friendship for friendship.”