Last Friday this Senate solemnly declared, that, under the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery, it had power to decree the equal rights of all persons everywhere throughout the United States, without distinction of color.
Sumner highlights a significant Senate declaration affirming the equal rights of all persons post-slavery, emphasizing its constitutional basis.
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Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
It is true, doubtless, that there are various races of men; but there is but one great Human Family, in which Caucasian, Ethiopian, Chinese, and Indian are all brothers, children of one Father, and heirs to one happiness.
It applies an arrogant and unrelenting ostracism to all who express themselves against Slavery.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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