Si la peste avoit des charges, des dignités, des honneurs, des bénéfices et des pensions à distribuer, elle auroit bientôt des théologiens et des juris-consultes qui soutiendroient qu'elle est de droit divin, et que c'est un péché de s'opposer à ses ravages.
Sumner critiques the corrupting influence of power and its justification by theologians and legal scholars.
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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!
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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
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