On the record
But pause not then,--beyond the western wave, Go, view the captive bartered as a slave!
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner urges his audience to confront the reality of slavery by envisioning the plight of captives sold into bondage.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
Above all, welcome to the united regenerated Democracy of the North, which spurns the mockery of a Republic, with professions of Freedom on the lips, while the chains of Slavery clank in the Capitol!
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
Out of this pernicious prejudice have proceeded that persecution and neglect which are the too frequent lot of the world's pioneers.
Other voices in this conversation
