Sumner declared his purpose to vote for the Bill as amended,--that it was now elevated and consecrated, and that whoever voted against it must take the responsibility of opposing a great measure for the assurance of Equal Rights.
Sumner emphasizes the importance of voting for the Civil Rights Bill, framing it as a moral obligation for those who support equal rights.
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Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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