On the record
In the city and in the village, in the field and in the workshop, everywhere will this question be sounded in the ears: "Are you for Freedom, or are you for Slavery?
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
He powerfully poses the question of allegiance to freedom or slavery in various social settings.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Other voices in this conversation
