On the record
And now, at the end of an unparalleled war to abase State Rights, we are asked to naturalize in the Constitution a new provision confirming to the States an odious pretension, shocking to the moral sense.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “And now, at the end of an unparalleled war to abase State Rights, we are asked to naturalize in the Constitution a new…”
Editor's note · Context
He criticizes the idea of embedding a provision in the Constitution that would support State Rights after a war against them.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Opening of United States courts to colored, XI. 389.
Other voices in this conversation
