You have gone too far, if you stop here and go no farther; you are in imminent hazard, if, having loosened the fetters, you do not strike them off,--if, leaving them ineffectual to restrain, you let them remain to gall and to irritate and to goad.
Sumner warns that failing to fully liberate freedmen poses a serious risk to their well-being.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
Endeavor, for a moment, by comparison with other interests, to grapple with this sum.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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