I see well that it will naturally bear much and forbear long,--that it will be moved by principle, and not by passion,--and that it will adopt the harsh instrumentalities of power only when all other things have failed.
Sumner expresses confidence that the nation will act with principle and patience, resorting to power only as a last resort.
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