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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
ssion of solicitude. The clause finally adopted was vague and faint as the original suggestion. In its natural import it is not applicable to slaves. If supposed by some to be so applicable, it is clear that it was supposed by others to be inapplicable to them. It is now insisted that the term persons held to service is an equivalent or synonym for slaves. This interpretation is rebuked by an incident, to which reference has been already made, but which will bear repetition. On the 6th September—a little more than one brief week after the clause had been adopted, and when, if it was deemed to be of any significance, it could not have been forgotten—the very word service came under debate, and received a fixed meaning. It was unanimously adopted as a substitute for servitude in another part of the Constitution, for the reason that it expressed the obligation of free persons, while the other expressed the condition of Slaves. In the face of this authentic evidence of the sentime
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xiii. (search)
ssion of solicitude. The clause finally adopted was vague and faint as the original suggestion. In its natural import it is not applicable to slaves. If supposed by some to be so applicable, it is clear that it was supposed by others to be inapplicable to them. It is now insisted that the term persons held to service is an equivalent or synonym for slaves. This interpretation is rebuked by an incident, to which reference has been already made, but which will bear repetition. On the 6th September—a little more than one brief week after the clause had been adopted, and when, if it was deemed to be of any significance, it could not have been forgotten—the very word service came under debate, and received a fixed meaning. It was unanimously adopted as a substitute for servitude in another part of the Constitution, for the reason that it expressed the obligation of free persons, while the other expressed the condition of Slaves. In the face of this authentic evidence of the sentime