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Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
William H. Seward Quotes: Sir, there is no Christian
I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.
William H. Seward Quotes: I mean to say that
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.
William H. Seward Quotes: To reduce this claim of
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.
William H. Seward Quotes: We show our sympathy with
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
William H. Seward Quotes: I deem it established, then,
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.
William H. Seward Quotes: But assuming the same premises,
Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.
William H. Seward Quotes: Therefore, states are equal in
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.
William H. Seward Quotes: Simultaneously with the establishment of
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
William H. Seward Quotes: The United States are a
The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.
William H. Seward Quotes: The two systems slave and
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
William H. Seward Quotes: The proposition of an established
I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.
William H. Seward Quotes: I know and all the
There is no social life outside of Christendom.
William H. Seward Quotes: There is no social life
But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
William H. Seward Quotes: But I deny that the
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
William H. Seward Quotes: There is not only no
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.
William H. Seward Quotes: But the Constitution was made
The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.
William H. Seward Quotes: The color of the prisoner's
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
William H. Seward Quotes: But there is a higher
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.
William H. Seward Quotes: I speak on due consideration
The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
William H. Seward Quotes: The whole hope of human
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