Reverently we acknowledge the finger of the Almighty, and pray that our great trials may not fail, to the end that the promises of the Fathers may be fulfilled,--those promises, so great and glorious, which make the Declaration a title-deed of mankind.
Sumner invokes divine guidance in the face of trials, linking them to the promises of the nation's founders.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
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