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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fourth: orations and political speeches. (search)
example of the Whigs of England, of Chatham, Camden, Burke, Fox and Sheridan, in their opposition to the war of our Revolutiown the vengeance of Heaven upon this devoted kingdom. Mr. Fox said: He could not consent to the bloody consequenceice. In another debate in the Commons, Dec. 8th, 1785, Mr. Fox said: I have always said that the war carrying on a In the Commons, March 11th, 1776, Col. Barre, Mr. Burke, Mr. Fox, all vied in eulogies upon General Montgomery, the accounttions to raise taxes to carry on the war against America. Mr. Fox then said: To the resolutions he should give a flat essive. Col. Barre followed, and adopted the phrase of Mr. Fox, giving his flat negative to the Resolutions, as they wererespect to America. In the Commons, on the same night, Mr. Fox said: The noble Lord who moved the amendment, said ttruth and reason, before God or man, can be justified. Mr. Fox said: He allowed the merits of the officers now in q
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Viii. (search)
example of the Whigs of England, of Chatham, Camden, Burke, Fox and Sheridan, in their opposition to the war of our Revolutiown the vengeance of Heaven upon this devoted kingdom. Mr. Fox said: He could not consent to the bloody consequenceice. In another debate in the Commons, Dec. 8th, 1785, Mr. Fox said: I have always said that the war carrying on a In the Commons, March 11th, 1776, Col. Barre, Mr. Burke, Mr. Fox, all vied in eulogies upon General Montgomery, the accounttions to raise taxes to carry on the war against America. Mr. Fox then said: To the resolutions he should give a flat essive. Col. Barre followed, and adopted the phrase of Mr. Fox, giving his flat negative to the Resolutions, as they wererespect to America. In the Commons, on the same night, Mr. Fox said: The noble Lord who moved the amendment, said ttruth and reason, before God or man, can be justified. Mr. Fox said: He allowed the merits of the officers now in q
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
s continuance as in its origin; and he openly declared, that, By the eternal principles of natural justice, no master in the State has a right to hold his slave in bondage a single hour. Ix. Thus at this time spoke the Nation. The Church also joined its voice. And here, amidst the diversities of religious faith, it is instructive to observe the general accord. The Quakers first bore their testimony. At the adoption of the Constitution, the whole body, under the early teaching of George Fox, and by the crowning exertions of Benezet and Wolman, had become an organized band of Abolitionists, penetrated by the conviction that it was unlawful to hold a fellow-man in bondage. The Methodists, numerous, earnest and faithful, never ceased by their preachers to proclaim the same truth. Their rules in 1788 denounced, in formal language, the buying or selling of bodies and souls of men, women, and children, with an intention to enslave them. The words of their great apostle, John Wes
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Ix. (search)
Ix. Thus at this time spoke the Nation. The Church also joined its voice. And here, amidst the diversities of religious faith, it is instructive to observe the general accord. The Quakers first bore their testimony. At the adoption of the Constitution, the whole body, under the early teaching of George Fox, and by the crowning exertions of Benezet and Wolman, had become an organized band of Abolitionists, penetrated by the conviction that it was unlawful to hold a fellow-man in bondage. The Methodists, numerous, earnest and faithful, never ceased by their preachers to proclaim the same truth. Their rules in 1788 denounced, in formal language, the buying or selling of bodies and souls of men, women, and children, with an intention to enslave them. The words of their great apostle, John Wesley, were constantly repeated. On the eve of the National Convention the burning tract was circulated, in which he exposes American slavery as the vilest of the world— such Slavery as is