Reports of Select Committees of the Senate: On Slavery and the Condition of Kansas; And on the Outrage on the Freedom of Debate in Congress (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Reports of Select Committees of the Senate: On Slavery and the Condition of Kansas; And on the Outrage on the Freedom of Debate in Congress

It has long since been settled, beyond possibility of cavil, that the United States Constitution treats all human beings as persons, and not as property. This is clearly laid down by the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Groves and others vs. Slaughter, 15 Peters' Reps. 449.

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