While very few agree with Sumner in the present practicability of his ideas, and still fewer indorse them at all as tenets of political faith, yet there is but one opinion of the speech he has been making for two days,--that, simply as a monument of laborious research and good English, it is unsurpassed.
Despite differing opinions on his ideas, Sumner's speech is recognized for its thorough research and eloquent language.
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It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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