Charles Sumner: “Look at the Chicago platform or candidate as you will, and you are constantly brought back to Slavery as the animating…”

Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.

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.

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.

As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.