To expect to tranquillize and benefit a country by gratifying its agitators would be like the practice of the superstitious of old with their sympathetic powders and ointments, who, instead of applying medicaments to the wound, contented themselves with salving the sword which had inflicted it.
Sumner critiques the ineffective approach of appeasing those who disrupt society instead of addressing the root issues.
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Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
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