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January (search for this): chapter 151
d sovereignty of Hayti and Liberia. Of course, it encountered the bitter opposition of every Pro-Slavery Senator, and every hater of the colored race. A resolution had been introduced into the Senate as long ago as July 1st, 1836; and again in January and March of the following year. But with the exception of that venerable Sage and apostle of Liberty, John Quincy Adams, scarcely a voice was heard in either House in advocacy of the measure. Mr. Hamilton, of South Carolina, declared that Haall that I then proposed is embodied in the legislation of the country as the supreme law of the land. Lv. The effect of the speech was best measured in the subsequent nomination and reelection of the speaker. On the 5th of the following January, at noon, each branch of the State Legislature proceeded in its own chamber, as by previous appointment, to the election, which was by viva voce. The roll was called, and thirty-three Senators out of thirty-six again announced Mr. Sumner to be t
February (search for this): chapter 151
speech by alluding to the fact that Nathaniel Gordon,—a Slave-trader, commanding the Slave-ship Erie,—had been executed in New York on the 21st of the preceding February, being the first in our history to suffer for this immeasurable crime. English lawyers, he continued, dwell much upon treason to the King, which they denounce ives who have served as soldiers in this war. We next give an extract from an act of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in General Assembly, February session, 1778:— Whereas, for the preservation of the rights and liberties of the United States, it is necessary that the whole powers of Government should bpretty effectually changed public opinion on the subject. From Major-General Hunter's department, In a letter from General Hunter, written from South Carolina, Feb. II, 1863, to a friend, he says:— Finding that the able-bodied negroes did not enter the military service as rapidly as could be wished, I have resolved, and
June 28th (search for this): chapter 151
trouble. In his Autobiography, volume I, page 190, Lieut.-Gen. Scott left these imperishable words: It had been proposed, without due reflection, by one of our gallant commanders engaged in the suppression of the existing Rebellion, to place on the banners of his victorious troops, the names of their battles. The proposition was rebuked by the Resolution submitted by the Hon. Mr. Sumner, which was noble, and from the right quarter. Xxxvi. On the 12th of May, and again on the 28th of June, Mr. Sumner attempted in vain to get a Resolution passed providing that In all judicial proceedings to confiscate the property and free the slaves of Rebels, there shall be no exclusion of any witnesses on account of color. He had already made two efforts against the exclusion of witnesses under this pretext. But this statesman, although ever vigilant, was ever patent in hope. He knew, as well as any old prophet of Judea forecast the future, that the day of absolute emancipation for a
March 18th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 151
e mail, and any contractor who shall employ, or permit any other than a free white person to carry, the mail, shall for every such offence, incur a penalty of twenty dollars. This bill was to blacken the statute book no longer. On the 18th of March, 1862, Mr. Sumner asked and obtained the unanimous consent of the Senate to introduce a bill to remove all disqualifications of color, in carrying the mails. It was reported back on the 27th of the month, by Mr. Collamer, of Vermont, Chairman oied by those governments, were abandoned and vacated. He continues: That patriot Senator, Andrew Johnson,—faithful among the faithless. the Abdiel of the South,—began his attempt to reorganize Tennessee by an Address, as early as the 18th of March, 1862, in which he made ruse of these words:— I find most, if not all, of the offices, both State and Federal, vacated, either by actual abandonment, or by the action of the incumbents in attempting to subordinate their functions to a power<
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