On the record
They are perfectly united in the belief that the division of this country is both right from a moral stand-point and politic as a measure of expediency.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner notes the Southern belief in the moral and political justification for the division of the country.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
By Perpetual Peace Kant understood a condition of nations where there could be no fear of War; and this condition, he said, was demanded by reason, which, abhorring all War, as little adapted to establish right, must regard this final…
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.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Other voices in this conversation
