In the first place, everybody who has had any practical experience of the working of the plantations or of the superintendence of negro labor will tell you that the control of the abandoned plantations and the care of the colored people must be in the same hands.
Sumner states that practical experience dictates that the management of plantations and care for freedmen should be unified.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
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.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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