I have never asked or desired an increase thereof, as I was receiving a suitable salary as a Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States,--while my colleagues have very properly received a much larger sum, and of late years more than double my own.
Sumner explains his contentment with his salary despite it being lower than his colleagues'.
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They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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