This General, professing to fight the battle of the Constitution with the commission of the Republic, speaks of “the concealment of slaves” in the same class with “pillaging, marauding, and stealing.” I complain of this confusion of language, showing an insensibility to human rights.
Sumner criticizes the conflation of human rights with criminal actions in military orders.
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Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Early testimony of the Church against, I. 59.
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
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