On the record
Once the Nation served Slavery, and in this service ministered to State Rights; now it must serve Liberty with kindred devotion, even to the denial of State Rights.
Source
gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Once the Nation served Slavery, and in this service ministered to State Rights; now it must serve Liberty with kindred…”
Editor's note · Context
Sumner calls for a shift from serving slavery to serving liberty as a national priority.
Share
More from Charles Sumner
Women’s National League, petition of, for universal emancipation, X. 300.
Disunion no remedy for grievances of, VII. 33.
Slavery and the: speech in New York, XI. 433.
Slave Power, necessity of political action against the, II. 207.
Other voices in this conversation
