If in the days of slavery the army could be used to hunt slaves, and suppress slave insurrections, why, in the days of liberty, may it not be used to enforce rights guaranteed by the Constitution?
He argues for the use of military power to protect the rights of African Americans, just as it was used during slavery.
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Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.
It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.
It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.