Then will the Republic be all that heart can desire or imagination paint,--“supremely lovely and serenely great, majestic mother” of a free, happy, and united people, with Slavery and all its tyranny beaten down under foot, so that no man shall call another master, and all shall be equal before the law.
Sumner envisions a future Republic free from slavery, where all individuals are equal before the law.
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Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
Sovereignty of, belongs to the people, XVI. 28.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
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