The Barbarism of Slavery: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Bill for the Admission of Kansas as a Free State, in the United States Senate, June 4, 1860 |
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... power of a master to whom he belongs . The mas- ter may sell him , dispose of his person , his industry , and his labor . He can do nothing , possess nothing , nor acquire any thing , but what must belong to his mas- ter . " - Civil ...
... power of a master to whom he belongs . The mas- ter may sell him , dispose of his person , his industry , and his labor . He can do nothing , possess nothing , nor acquire any thing , but what must belong to his mas- ter . " - Civil ...
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... power which Heaven denied ; while under its barbarous necromancy , borrowed from the Source of Evil , a man is changed into a chattel , a person is withered into a thing , a soul is shrunk into merchandise . Say , sir , in your madness ...
... power which Heaven denied ; while under its barbarous necromancy , borrowed from the Source of Evil , a man is changed into a chattel , a person is withered into a thing , a soul is shrunk into merchandise . Say , sir , in your madness ...
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... power , which is simply to compel the labor of fellow - men withoul wages ! If the offense of Slavery were less extended ; if it were con- fined to some narrow region ; if it had less of grandeur in its proportions ; if its victims were ...
... power , which is simply to compel the labor of fellow - men withoul wages ! If the offense of Slavery were less extended ; if it were con- fined to some narrow region ; if it had less of grandeur in its proportions ; if its victims were ...
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... with political power . As there is a higher law above , so there is a lower law below , and each is felt in human affairs . Thus far we have seen Slavery only in its pretended law , and in the origin of that law . And here 19.
... with political power . As there is a higher law above , so there is a lower law below , and each is felt in human affairs . Thus far we have seen Slavery only in its pretended law , and in the origin of that law . And here 19.
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... power distributed through- out its space ; in natural highways , by more than fifty navigable rivers , never closed by the rigors of winter ; and in a stretch of coast along ocean and gulf , indented by hospitable harbors— the whole ...
... power distributed through- out its space ; in natural highways , by more than fifty navigable rivers , never closed by the rigors of winter ; and in a stretch of coast along ocean and gulf , indented by hospitable harbors— the whole ...
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Page 29 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery, subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. "This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Page 55 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory, it is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law.
Page 62 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Page 29 - This contest has now reached such a stage and been attended with such decisive success on the part of the Provinces that it merits the most profound consideration whether their right to the rank of independent nations, with all the advantages incident to it in their intercourse with the United States, is not complete.
Page 29 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 60 - But when contending chiefs blockade the throne, Contracting regal power to stretch their own, When I behold a factious band agree To call it freedom when themselves are free...
Page 61 - That the maintenance Inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...