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Can you who reached so far to secure free transit in the Baltic now hesitate in its defence here at home?
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner challenges his audience to defend free transit rights at home, drawing on their past successes abroad.
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Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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 first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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