In other days France has valiantly striven for ideas; and now she, too, proposes surrender, although all that she professes at heart is involved in the doom of Slavery, which a word from her might hasten beyond recall.
Sumner reflects on France's historical commitment to ideas and its current betrayal regarding slavery.
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