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, 1860Young Men's Republican Union, 1868 - 80 Seiten |
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... MEDIATION ; AND ALSO BY RECOGNITION ; THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ANY RECOGNITION OF A NEW POWER WITH SLAVERY AS A CORNER- STONE ; AND THE WRONGFUL CONCESSION OF OCEAN BELLIGERENCY . SPEECH OF HON . CHARLES SUMNER , BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF NEW ...
... MEDIATION ; AND ALSO BY RECOGNITION ; THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ANY RECOGNITION OF A NEW POWER WITH SLAVERY AS A CORNER- STONE ; AND THE WRONGFUL CONCESSION OF OCEAN BELLIGERENCY . SPEECH OF HON . CHARLES SUMNER , BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF NEW ...
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... MEDIATION ; AND ALSO BY RECOGNITION ; THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ANY RECOGNITION OF A NEW POWER WITH SLAVERY AS A CORNER- STONE ; AND THE WRONGFUL CONCESSION OF OCEAN BELLIGERENCY . SPEECH OF HON . CHARLES SUMNER , BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF NEW ...
... MEDIATION ; AND ALSO BY RECOGNITION ; THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF ANY RECOGNITION OF A NEW POWER WITH SLAVERY AS A CORNER- STONE ; AND THE WRONGFUL CONCESSION OF OCEAN BELLIGERENCY . SPEECH OF HON . CHARLES SUMNER , BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF NEW ...
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... Mediation , and now in the form of Recognition ; and more than once the country has been summoned to confront the idea of England , and of France too , in open combination with Rebel Slave - mongers battling , in the name of Slavery ...
... Mediation , and now in the form of Recognition ; and more than once the country has been summoned to confront the idea of England , and of France too , in open combination with Rebel Slave - mongers battling , in the name of Slavery ...
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... Mediation or , it may be , a Recognition of the Slave - monger pretension as an Independent Nation ; for such propositions have been openly made in Parlia- ment and constantly urged by the British press , and , though not yet adopted by ...
... Mediation or , it may be , a Recognition of the Slave - monger pretension as an Independent Nation ; for such propositions have been openly made in Parlia- ment and constantly urged by the British press , and , though not yet adopted by ...
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... Mediation except in the interests of Freedom . And yet such are the strange " elective affinities ' newly born between England and Slavery ; such is the towering blindness , with regard to our country , kindred to that which pre- vailed ...
... Mediation except in the interests of Freedom . And yet such are the strange " elective affinities ' newly born between England and Slavery ; such is the towering blindness , with regard to our country , kindred to that which pre- vailed ...
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affairs African argument arms assumption authority Barbarism of Slavery Belligerent Rights Britain British Government cause character of Slavery CHARLES SUMNER Christian Powers citizens Civilization commerce concession Congress Constitution contest Court debate declared Duel duty Emperor England equal exposed Foreign Powers forget France Free Freedom French Gran Para honor human Independence influence instances International Law John Bradburn John Quincy Adams King land Law of Nations Law of Slavery less letter Liberty Lord Castlereagh Lord Palmerston Majesty's Government Massachusetts master Mediation menace ment Mexico Minister Missouri Compromise moral nature naval neutrality New-York Ocean Belligerency openly outrage Parliament peace Peace of Westphalia persons pirate ships Poland pretension principle question race Rebel Slave-mongers Rebellion Recognition recognized Republic REPUBLICAN UNION Russia sanction Senator side Slave Slave-masters slave-trade solemn South-Carolina Spain speech spirit statute SUMNER territory thing tion Treaty United vindicate violence Virginia whole words wrong
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...