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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... exist- ence were not plainly inconsistent with the first principles of any thing that can be called Civilization - except by that figure of speech in classical literature , where a thing takes its name from something which it has not ...
... exist- ence were not plainly inconsistent with the first principles of any thing that can be called Civilization - except by that figure of speech in classical literature , where a thing takes its name from something which it has not ...
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... exists and the more com- pletely it prevails , must its blasting influences penetrate the whole social system . Barbarous in origin ; barbarous in its law ; barbarous in all its pretensions ; barbarous in the instruments it employs ...
... exists and the more com- pletely it prevails , must its blasting influences penetrate the whole social system . Barbarous in origin ; barbarous in its law ; barbarous in all its pretensions ; barbarous in the instruments it employs ...
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... exist . The ties that may be formed between slaves are all subject to the selfish interests or more selfish lust of the master , whose license knows no check . Natural affections , which have come together , are rudely torn asunder ...
... exist . The ties that may be formed between slaves are all subject to the selfish interests or more selfish lust of the master , whose license knows no check . Natural affections , which have come together , are rudely torn asunder ...
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... exist , for it is these very " abuses " which constitute Slavery . Take away any one of them , and the abolition of Slavery begins . And when I present Slavery for judgment , I mean no slight evil , with regard to which there may be a ...
... exist , for it is these very " abuses " which constitute Slavery . Take away any one of them , and the abolition of Slavery begins . And when I present Slavery for judgment , I mean no slight evil , with regard to which there may be a ...
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... exists excel the Free States in all natural advantages . Their territory is more exten- sive , stretching over 851,448 square miles , while the Free States , including California , embrace only 612,597 square miles . Here is a ...
... exists excel the Free States in all natural advantages . Their territory is more exten- sive , stretching over 851,448 square miles , while the Free States , including California , embrace only 612,597 square miles . Here is a ...
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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...