On the record
The President has not even a puff of air to stand on.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner uses a metaphor to illustrate that the President lacks any legitimate support for his actions.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
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!
Other voices in this conversation
