Charles Sumner: “But a righteous public opinion early and constantly set its face against Slavery.”

But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.

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.

Confessing the Fatherhood of God, and the consequent Brotherhood of Man, we find a divine standard of unquestionable accuracy.