The alarmist, who starts at every suggestion of change, and the croaker, who augurs constant evil from the irresistible tendency of events, must confess that there are men here to whose intelligence and patriotism, under God, the interests of our beloved Commonwealth may well be intrusted.
Sumner critiques alarmists and pessimists, asserting that capable individuals can be trusted with the Commonwealth's interests.
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