On the record
I cannot by my vote consent that there shall be two additional slaveholding Senators for another generation.
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Sumner expresses his firm opposition to the idea of adding more slaveholding Senators to Congress.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
It is clear that the only question of present practical interest arises from the usurpations of the Slave Power and the efforts to extend Slavery.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Other voices in this conversation
