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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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
Working-men of Europe, desire abolition of war, XVIII. 236.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
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