For myself, I say plainly and without hesitation, that I prefer Horace Greeley, with any Congress possible on the Cincinnati Platform, to President Grant, with his personal government and his rings,--a vote for whom involves the support of this personal government, with prolonged power in all the rings.
Sumner expresses his preference for Horace Greeley over President Grant, criticizing the latter's governance style and associated corruption.
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I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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