On the record
There are Senators here who pretend to find in the Constitution the right to carry slaves into the National Territories.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner criticizes Senators who interpret the Constitution as allowing slavery in National Territories.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
This will be the FREEDOM POWER, whose single object will be to resist the SLAVE POWER.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
They who strive after it, Ixion-like, embrace a cloud.
Other voices in this conversation
