In sustaining such a representative, you sacrifice substance to form,--you abandon the living principle, content with the dead letter,--you “keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope,”--you offer to the people of Oregon a stone, when they demand bread.
Sumner critiques the idea of prioritizing form over substance in representation, emphasizing the needs of the people.
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