Propositions are brought forward by the Senator from Kentucky, and enforced by petition from my own State, calling upon the North to surrender its principles,--to surrender those impregnable principles of Human Rights which constitute our Northern forts.
Sumner denounces calls for the North to abandon its principles of human rights.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
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