Why, without inquiry, hand over the loyalists of Virginia, bound hand and foot, as victims?” That is what I have said; and it is no answer for my friend to say that I do not declare whether I would have a new election or not.
Sumner questions the rationale behind surrendering loyalists in Virginia without proper inquiry, emphasizing the need for justice.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
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 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.
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