But there is still another class, for whom no one has yet spoken on this floor, who have contributed to our success not less than soldier or creditor,--I was almost ready to say, not less than the freedman: I mean the mechanics of the country.
Sumner highlights the often-overlooked contributions of mechanics to the nation's war efforts, equating their importance to that of soldiers and creditors.
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Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
Let us at all hazards prevent the extension of Slavery and the increase of the Slave Power.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
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