On the record
It fixed forever the character of the population in the vast regions northwest of the Ohio, by excluding from them involuntary servitude.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner asserts that the Ordinance of 1787 permanently shaped the population of the Northwest Territory by prohibiting slavery.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue."--Letter to John K.
By Perpetual Peace Kant understood a condition of nations where there could be no fear of War; and this condition, he said, was demanded by reason, which, abhorring all War, as little adapted to establish right, must regard this final…
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Other voices in this conversation
