He seems also to have anticipated that flagrant sophism, which, under the guise of Popular Sovereignty, insists that men shall be at liberty--“perfectly free” is the phrase of the Nebraska Bill--to buy and sell fellow-men.
Sumner critiques the concept of 'Popular Sovereignty' as a deceptive justification for slavery.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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