Charles Sumner: “The present pretension is more outrageous, and its consequences are…”

On the record

The present pretension is more outrageous, and its consequences are more deadly; surely the resistance cannot be less complete.

Said by

Massachusetts

Source

Sumner asserts that the current political situation demands a strong and complete resistance.

More from Charles Sumner

His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.

Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.

The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.

Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.

Other voices in this conversation

Charles Sumner: “The present pretension is more outrageous, and its consequences are more deadly; surely the resistance cannot be less…”