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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 8 0 Browse Search
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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)
ly period in the struggle between Slavery and Freedom, Mr. Sumner, who was always thorough and practical in the application of principle, to every act, and on every occasion, appeared before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, in the case of Sarah C. Roberts vs. The City of Boston. The object of this suit was, to have some decision of a Court of Final Appeal, which should determine the civil rights of the Colored people of the State. This was the most powerful and exhaustive argument in behaunderstand its full force. A recent English writer on the subject says, that it is not only a distinction by birth, but is founded on the doctrine of an essentially distinct origin of the different races, which are thus unalterably separated. （Roberts on Caste, p. 134.) This is the very ground of the Boston School Committee. But this word is not now applied for the first time to the distinction between the white and black races. Alexander von Humboldt, in speaking of the negroes in Mexico
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xii. (search)
ly period in the struggle between Slavery and Freedom, Mr. Sumner, who was always thorough and practical in the application of principle, to every act, and on every occasion, appeared before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, in the case of Sarah C. Roberts vs. The City of Boston. The object of this suit was, to have some decision of a Court of Final Appeal, which should determine the civil rights of the Colored people of the State. This was the most powerful and exhaustive argument in behaunderstand its full force. A recent English writer on the subject says, that it is not only a distinction by birth, but is founded on the doctrine of an essentially distinct origin of the different races, which are thus unalterably separated. （Roberts on Caste, p. 134.) This is the very ground of the Boston School Committee. But this word is not now applied for the first time to the distinction between the white and black races. Alexander von Humboldt, in speaking of the negroes in Mexico