Change from Antislavery to Proslavery.--But the generous sentiments which filled the souls of the early patriots, and impressed upon the government they founded, as upon the very coin they circulated, the image and superscription of LIBERTY, gradually lost their power.
Sumner reflects on the decline of the original ideals of liberty that inspired the founding of the United States.
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Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
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Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
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