Our commerce will be put at once under the solemn safeguard of treaty, so that it will enjoy that security which is essential to its perfect prosperity, and can no longer suffer from discriminating duties or hostile legislation, aroused by a just sensibility at our persevering illiberality.
Sumner argues for the importance of treaties to protect American commerce from unfair practices.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
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