And this transcendent monopoly, thus vast in resources, undertakes to levy a toll on the commerce, the passengers, the mails, and the troops of the Union in transit between two great cities, both outside New Jersey.
Sumner describes a vast monopoly that imposes tolls on commerce and transit within the Union.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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