In him we find a liberal education blended with a liberal spirit,--the experience and the wealth of the successful merchant turned into the channels of Benevolence, and the influence earned by various labors, in various posts of honor and trust, consecrated to Human Improvement.
Sumner praises a candidate for combining education, wealth, and benevolence for the betterment of society.
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I agree with the Convention in the importance of the new organization; nor do I think there are many candid persons, recognizing morals as the soul of all true politics, who will hesitate in this conclusion.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
At Baltimore the delegation of the most important State in the Union, known to be in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, was refused admission to the Convention.
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