The banks, then, and every stockholder, will find a motive to press for specie payments, and you will have that great result quietly accomplished, absolutely without shock, while the business interests of the country will rejoice.
Sumner believes that the banking system will motivate stakeholders to pursue specie payments without disruption.
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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.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
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