We are told, indeed, by the learned doctors of the nullification school, that color operates as a forfeiture of the rights of human nature: that a dark skin turns a man into a chattel; that crispy hair transforms a human being into a four-footed beast.
He critiques the nullification argument that dehumanizes individuals based on race, highlighting its absurdity.
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Can you wonder that they shrink from the light of free discussion--that they skulk from the grasp of freedom and of truth?
That it has exposed in broad day the overruling influence of the institution of domestic slavery upon the history and policy of the Union.
Adams replied: "I well know this; but labor I shall not refuse so long as my hands, my eyes, and my brain, do not desert me.
If there is a Bostonian who ever sailed from his own harbor for distant lands, or returned to it from them, without feelings, at the sight of the Blue Hills, which he is unable to express, his heart is differently constituted from mine.
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