Surely, fellow-citizens, without hesitation or postponement, you will insist that this Oligarchy shall be overthrown; and here is the foremost among the special duties of the North, now required for the honor of the Republic, for our own defence, and in obedience to God.
Sumner calls on citizens to take immediate action against the oligarchy, framing it as a duty for the honor of the Republic.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
By Perpetual Peace Kant understood a condition of nations where there could be no fear of War; and this condition, he said, was demanded by reason, which, abhorring all War, as little adapted to establish right, must regard this final…
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
Other voices in this conversation
