But this was not so sad as now, after a bloody war with Slavery, and its defeat on the battle-field, to meet the champions of a kindred pretension, for which they claim the safeguard of the Constitution, insisting also, as in the case of Slavery, upon State Rights.
Sumner laments the persistence of similar arguments for state rights that once justified slavery.
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The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
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