And your presence here to-night in such numbers declares that there are multitudes among us who cherish and preserve a warm admiration, a generous and purifying enthusiasm, for the noble examples of self-sacrifice bequeathed to us by a generation which has passed away.
Sumner reflects on the enduring admiration for self-sacrifice from past generations.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
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