On the record
State Rights, when properly understood, are entirely consistent with the maintenance of Human Rights by the Nation.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner clarifies that state rights can coexist with the protection of human rights at the national level.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Tendencies of nations, as revealed in history, teach that our aims are in harmony with prevailing laws, which God, in his benevolence, has ordained for mankind.
They are but leaders of the two contending factions into which the Slave Power is divided.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Other voices in this conversation
