The Senate is engaged in maturing a permanent law,--not merely for a year, not only for the present Rebellion, not for any exigency of the day, but an enduring statute,--and as such it will be a record of the sentiments and the civilization of our time.
Sumner emphasizes the importance of creating a lasting military law that reflects the values of their time.
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They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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