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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... positively forbids that he shall be taught to read . Of course , the slave can not be allowed to read , for his soul would then expand in larger air , while he saw the glory of the North Star , and also the helping truth , that God ...
... positively forbids that he shall be taught to read . Of course , the slave can not be allowed to read , for his soul would then expand in larger air , while he saw the glory of the North Star , and also the helping truth , that God ...
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... positive requirements of this debate , I. crave the indulgence of the Senate , while , avoiding all allu- sions to private life or private character , and touching simply what is of record , and already " enrolled in the Capitol , " I ...
... positive requirements of this debate , I. crave the indulgence of the Senate , while , avoiding all allu- sions to private life or private character , and touching simply what is of record , and already " enrolled in the Capitol , " I ...
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... positive " statute , the Vermont Judge was nobly right , when , rejecting the claim of a Slave - master , he said : " No ; not until you show a Bill of Sale from the Al- mighty . " Nothing short of this impossible link in the chain of ...
... positive " statute , the Vermont Judge was nobly right , when , rejecting the claim of a Slave - master , he said : " No ; not until you show a Bill of Sale from the Al- mighty . " Nothing short of this impossible link in the chain of ...
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... positive law . It is so odious , that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW " —that is , express words of a written text ; and this principle , which commends itself to the enlightened reason , has been adopted by ...
... positive law . It is so odious , that nothing can be suffered to support it but POSITIVE LAW " —that is , express words of a written text ; and this principle , which commends itself to the enlightened reason , has been adopted by ...
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... positive law " alone , to be upheld only by words of " irresistible clearness . " The case of Somerset , in which this great rule was declared , has been impeached on this floor , as the Declaration of Independence has been impeached ...
... positive law " alone , to be upheld only by words of " irresistible clearness . " The case of Somerset , in which this great rule was declared , has been impeached on this floor , as the Declaration of Independence has been impeached ...
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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...