On the record
The pretended right of secession is not less monstrous than the pretext or the occasion; and this, too, is born of Slavery.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “The pretended right of secession is not less monstrous than the pretext or the occasion; and this, too, is born of…”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner condemns the right of secession as a monstrous concept that arises from the institution of slavery.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
His loyalty to the Declaration of Independence, XIX. 317.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
The only Constitutional party and party of freedom, VII. 38.
Other voices in this conversation
