On the record
The columns of the public press are daily filled with testimony solemnly taken before the Committee of Congress in Kansas, which attests, in awful light, the violence ending in the Usurpation.
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Sumner highlights the violence documented by Congress regarding the usurpation in Kansas.
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I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government, economically administered.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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