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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... equal insensibility to the true character of the Constitution . This is shown in the claim now made , and pressed with unprecedented energy , degrading the work of our fathers , that by virtue of the Constitution , the pretended ...
... equal insensibility to the true character of the Constitution . This is shown in the claim now made , and pressed with unprecedented energy , degrading the work of our fathers , that by virtue of the Constitution , the pretended ...
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... equal insensibility to the true character of the Constitution . This is shown in the claim now made , and pressed with unprecedented energy , degrading the work of our fathers , that by virtue of the Constitution , the pre- tended ...
... equal insensibility to the true character of the Constitution . This is shown in the claim now made , and pressed with unprecedented energy , degrading the work of our fathers , that by virtue of the Constitution , the pre- tended ...
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... equal ; " with that great story of redemption , when the Lord raised the slave- born Moses to deliver his chosen people from the house of bond- age ; and with that sublimer story , where the Saviour died a cruel death , that all men ...
... equal ; " with that great story of redemption , when the Lord raised the slave- born Moses to deliver his chosen people from the house of bond- age ; and with that sublimer story , where the Saviour died a cruel death , that all men ...
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... equal validity with the marriage of his master , and surrounded his offspring with gen- erous presumptions of Freedom , unlike that rule of yours by which the servitude of the mother is necessarily stamped upon . the child . It is not ...
... equal validity with the marriage of his master , and surrounded his offspring with gen- erous presumptions of Freedom , unlike that rule of yours by which the servitude of the mother is necessarily stamped upon . the child . It is not ...
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... equal . In 1790 , at the first census under the Constitution , the population of the present Slave States was 1,961,372 , of the present Free States 1,968,455 , showing a difference of only 7083 in favor of the Free States . This ...
... equal . In 1790 , at the first census under the Constitution , the population of the present Slave States was 1,961,372 , of the present Free States 1,968,455 , showing a difference of only 7083 in favor of the Free States . This ...
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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...