The National Constitution was not so absurd, nor have our courts been so absurd in its interpretation, as to recognize a power in the custom-house merely at the door of the granite structure, and to require that it shall stop there.
Sumner argues that the interpretation of the National Constitution should not limit the power of the custom-house to just the entrance of a building.
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This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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