The man who has no curiosity to know what the first statesman in America says on all these heads would go to bed without asking whether the fire in the next street was put out, or if the house next his own began to smoke.
Sumner argues for the importance of being informed about significant political discourse.
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Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
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