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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... practice of the planters of America , a race of mortals whom , I suppose , no other man wishes to resemble . " - Letter to William Drummond , 13th August , 1766 . ( Boswell's Life of Johnson , by Croker . ) With such authorities ...
... practice of the planters of America , a race of mortals whom , I suppose , no other man wishes to resemble . " - Letter to William Drummond , 13th August , 1766 . ( Boswell's Life of Johnson , by Croker . ) With such authorities ...
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... practice , " and invoked the clergy of his State " as a particular favor , at some conve- nient early day , to preach a sermon on the sin and folly of dueling . " The other was Mr. Rhett , who , on this floor , openly declared as his ...
... practice , " and invoked the clergy of his State " as a particular favor , at some conve- nient early day , to preach a sermon on the sin and folly of dueling . " The other was Mr. Rhett , who , on this floor , openly declared as his ...
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... practice as the Carib of the Gulf hugged Cannibalism , and as Brigham Young now hugs Polygamy . The delusion of the " Goitre " is repeated . This prodigious swelling of the neck , constituting " a hideous wallet of flesh " pendulous ...
... practice as the Carib of the Gulf hugged Cannibalism , and as Brigham Young now hugs Polygamy . The delusion of the " Goitre " is repeated . This prodigious swelling of the neck , constituting " a hideous wallet of flesh " pendulous ...
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... practicing violence , and pushing it everywhere , in street - fight and duel ; especially raging against all who question the pretensions of Slavery ; entering even into the Free States ; but not in lawless outbreaks only ; also in ...
... practicing violence , and pushing it everywhere , in street - fight and duel ; especially raging against all who question the pretensions of Slavery ; entering even into the Free States ; but not in lawless outbreaks only ; also in ...
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... practicing such principles ? Will not every civilized nation , when the nature of this Confederacy is understood , come to the side of the United States , and refuse all association with them , as , in truth , they are hostes humani ...
... practicing such principles ? Will not every civilized nation , when the nature of this Confederacy is understood , come to the side of the United States , and refuse all association with them , as , in truth , they are hostes humani ...
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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...