These proceedings determine on the one side the question of Property, and on the other the sacred question of Personal Liberty in its most transcendent form,--Liberty not merely for a day or a year, but for life, and the Liberty of generations that shall come after, so long as Slavery endures.
Sumner argues that the proceedings in question address both property rights and the fundamental issue of personal liberty.
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Consent of the governed necessary in forming new governments of, XII. 298.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Contrary to Christianity, but upheld by the Church, I. 54, 58.
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