I am astonished, shocked, to hear such principles confessed,--to hear them avowed in this House, or in this country,--principles equally unconstitutional, inhuman, and un-christian.… I call upon your Lordships and the united powers of the State to stamp upon them an indelible stigma of the public abhorrence.
Sumner expresses his shock at hearing principles he deems unconstitutional and calls for public condemnation of them.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
Rather would I arouse you to renewed and incessant exertion.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
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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