On the record
Why continue this terrible homicidal, fratricidal, suicidal combat, fraught with mutual death and sacrifice?
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner questions the rationale behind continued violent conflict.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
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.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Other voices in this conversation
