On the record
Nobody sincerely favoring generosity to Rebels should hesitate in justice to the colored race.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner asserts that those advocating for leniency towards rebels should also support justice for the colored race.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Other voices in this conversation
