The professors of “law and order” allowed the murderer to escape, and, still further to illustrate the irony of the name they assumed, seized the friend of the murdered man, whose few neighbors soon rallied for his rescue.
Sumner criticizes the hypocrisy of those who claimed to uphold law and order while allowing injustice to prevail.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
In this contest, we may borrow from the ancient Greek, who, when his hands were cut off, fought with his stumps, and even with his teeth.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
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