On the record
Nor has any bill passed the Senate, since the organization of the government, but by the votes of slaveholders.
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Lewis Tappan
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gutenberg.orgLewis Tappan: “Nor has any bill passed the Senate, since the organization of the government, but by the votes of slaveholders.”
Editor's note · Context
Tappan asserts that all bills passed in the Senate have required the votes of slaveholders since the government's inception.
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Do you ask that your children may be rescued from the ignorance and irreligion to which they are now doomed, and that avenues may be opened for you and for them to honest and profitable employment?
Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.
By abolishing slavery you will become the architects of your own fortune, and of your country's greatness.
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