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| Charles Sumner
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel. From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.In this surrender--if such it may be called--the National Government does not even stoop to conquer. It simply lifts itself to the height of its original principle. The early efforts of its best negotiators, the patriotic trial of its solders . . . may at least prevail.
Let the bugles sound the "Truce of God" to the whole world forever.
No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. Nothing from man's hands, no law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final. The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. The phrase "public office is a public trust," has of last become common property. The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened, and decorated by the intellect of man. The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that
is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not
honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.Webster looked like Coriolanus. He seemed to scorn, while he
addressed the people.
Where Slavery is there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is there Slavery can be. |
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