Such are commanding authorities which make “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” and, in more general words, “the Rights of Human Nature,” as the basis of our national institutions, without distinction of race, or absurd recognition of the curse of Ham.
Sumner argues that the foundational rights of life and liberty should apply universally, without racial distinction.
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Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
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