On the record
More revolting than mangled victims, gashed limbs, lifeless trunks, spattering brains, are the lawless passions which sweep, tempest-like, through the fiendish tumult.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner argues that the true horror of war lies in the unchecked passions that drive it.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Other voices in this conversation
