Charles Sumner on Slavery
1811–1874 United States
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By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.
The same national authority that destroyed slavery must see that this other pretension is not permitted to survive.
Slavery is in itself an arrogant denial of human rights, and by no human reason can the power to establish such a wrong be placed among the attributes of any just sovereignty.
Where Slavery is there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is there Slavery cannot be.
The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words.