And this is the Popular Sovereignty which, lifting the down-trodden and trampling on tyrants,--now gentle as Charity, and then terrible as an army with banners,--is destined to make the tour of the world, rendering Slavery everywhere impossible.
Sumner describes the transformative power of Popular Sovereignty in the fight against slavery.
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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.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
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!
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