Did it not become the Government of the United States at this time, when making these large sales, almost gigantic, so that its suspicion was necessarily aroused, to institute inquiry into the real character of the purchaser?
Sumner raises concerns about the U.S. government's responsibility to investigate large sales that could arouse suspicion.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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.
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