On the record
Not the right to choose the Executive; for the Governor and all other officers in this department were sent from Washington, nominated by the President.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Not the right to choose the Executive; for the Governor and all other officers in this department were sent from…”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner points out that the bill denied the people the right to choose their own government officials, as they were appointed by the President.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Other voices in this conversation
