You can make this day more sacred and more historic, and do for it better than the Continental Congress.” Had Emancipation been spoken at that time, I cannot doubt that the salvation of our country would have begun thus earlier.
Sumner reflects on how an earlier call for emancipation could have changed the course of the nation’s history.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
More precious far at that moment the consolation that he had labored for his fellow-men, and the joyous confidence that all his cares had helped the Progress of his race!
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.
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