Who can suppose that these wise and illustrious patriarchs of Liberty all consented, nem. con., not only to sanction Slavery and to recognize property in man, but to put a kennel of bloodhounds into the Constitution, ready to hunt the flying bondman?
Sumner questions the idea that the founding fathers would have agreed to include provisions for slavery in the Constitution.
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The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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!
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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.
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