The Works of Charles Sumner, Band 2Lee and Shepard, 1875 |
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... ABOLITIONIST . Letter to the Boston Daily Atlas , September 27 , 1849 . EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW : UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF SEPARATE COLORED SCHOOLS IN MASSACHUSETTS . Argument before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts , in the Case of ...
... ABOLITIONIST . Letter to the Boston Daily Atlas , September 27 , 1849 . EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW : UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF SEPARATE COLORED SCHOOLS IN MASSACHUSETTS . Argument before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts , in the Case of ...
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... Abolition of the Afri- can Slave - Trade , Vol . II . p . 460 . • • His is a pro- Not thus the schoolmaster in his peaceful vocation . gress not to be compared with anything like a march ; but it leads to a fai more brilliant triumph ...
... Abolition of the Afri- can Slave - Trade , Vol . II . p . 460 . • • His is a pro- Not thus the schoolmaster in his peaceful vocation . gress not to be compared with anything like a march ; but it leads to a fai more brilliant triumph ...
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... madness of party , which so often , for the sake of success , renounces 1 Clarkson's History of the Abolition of the African Slave - Trade , Vol . I. p . 171 . the very objects of success , and , finally , 48 FAME AND GLORY .
... madness of party , which so often , for the sake of success , renounces 1 Clarkson's History of the Abolition of the African Slave - Trade , Vol . I. p . 171 . the very objects of success , and , finally , 48 FAME AND GLORY .
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... distinguish man from the brute creation , " I quote his own words , he de- creed its total abolition throughout his dominions . Let Christian America be taught by these despised Mahom- " heir 3 * AGAINST THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY . 57.
... distinguish man from the brute creation , " I quote his own words , he de- creed its total abolition throughout his dominions . Let Christian America be taught by these despised Mahom- " heir 3 * AGAINST THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY . 57.
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... abolition of slavery ; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished , and that is by legislative au- thority ; and this , as far as my suffrage will go , shall never be wanting . " 1 Patrick Henry ...
... abolition of slavery ; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished , and that is by legislative au- thority ; and this , as far as my suffrage will go , shall never be wanting . " 1 Patrick Henry ...
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abolition Address ancient applause Arbiter barbarous Boston Cæsar called candidate Caste cause character CHARLES SUMNER Christian civil Common Schools Commonwealth of Nations condemned Congress Constitution Convention Court Declaration of Independence Democrats duty early earth efforts election England equal established evil extension of Slavery Fame Faneuil Hall fathers fellow-citizens France Free-Soil party Freedom friends Glory harmony heart honor human influence institution John John Quincy Adams justice labors land Law of Nations Law School Laws of Massachusetts Laws of War Legislature Leibnitz letter liberty mankind Massachusetts ment moral National Government nature never opinion opposed organization Peace person philosophy political present principles Professor question race recognized regard Republic sanction says Senate sentiment Slave Power slaveholders Slavery soul speech spirit tion tribunal triumph true truth Union United University virtue vote Washington Whig Whig party Wilmot Proviso words
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Seite 299 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low. So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart.
Seite 323 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
Seite 344 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Seite 60 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont, Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up.
Seite 294 - Under these impressions, they earnestly entreat your serious attention to the subject of slavery; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men who alone in this land of freedom are degraded into perpetual bondage, and who, amidst the general joy of surrounding freemen, are groaning in servile subjection ; that you will devise means for removing this inconsistency from the character of the American people...
Seite 28 - I wish popularity ; but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after ; it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.
Seite 326 - Upon the decease of my wife, it is my will and desire, that all the slaves which I hold in my own right shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her life would, though earnestly wished by me, be attended with such insuperable difficulties, on account of their intermixture by...
Seite 334 - A State also of Equality, wherein all the Power and Jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another: there being nothing more evident, than that Creatures of the same species and rank promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without Subordination or Subjection...
Seite 370 - But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Seite 6 - His is a progress not to be compared with anything like a march — but it leads to a far more brilliant triumph, and to laurels more imperishable than the destroyer of his species, the scourge of the world, ever won.