Territorial Slave Code: Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 25, 1860 |
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Page 4 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Page 5 - ... when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference) The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 5 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 5 - The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other.
Page 3 - We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.
Page 6 - Consider this moving sentiment, carved on the hémicycle of the Post Office Department Building, facing 14th Street: The Post Office Department, in its ceaseless labors, pervades every channel of commerce and every theatre of human enterprise, and while visiting as it does kindly, every fireside, mingles with the throbbings of almost every heart in the land. In the amplitude of its beneficence, it ministers to all climes, and creeds, and pursuits, with the same eager readiness and with equal fullness...
Page 4 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Page 3 - ... colonies. Land from ,the public domain was given to emigrants, in one West India colony, at least, on condition that the resident owner would " keep four negroes for every hundred acres.
Page 5 - States ; that slavery is inconsistent with the genius of republicanism, and has a tendency to destroy those principles on which it is supported, as it lessens the sense of the equal rights of mankind, and habituates us to tyranny and oppression.
Page 5 - York, had recently united in a solemn petition for those who, though "free by the laws of God, are held in Slavery by the laws of this State.