Permit me, as a citizen of your native State, and especially as a colored man, who has faithfully devoted more than twenty years of his brief life to the elevation of his race, most sincerely and heartily to thank you for your very masterly speech in exposition of the monstrous iniquity of American Slavery.
In this statement, Sumner expresses gratitude for a powerful speech against slavery, highlighting its significance for the African American community.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Far above any flickering light or battle-lantern of party is the everlasting sun of Truth, in whose beams are the duties of men.
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