On the record
And I submit that no principle less solid can sustain this exercise of power.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
He asserts that any exercise of power must be supported by solid principles to be justified.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Other voices in this conversation
