Society, Justice & Peace: Freedom Quotes

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"And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress"

Caleb Cushing, Diplomat

"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, Politician

"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, Politician

"Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery"

William H. Seward, Politician

"It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes it's a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state"

William H. Seward, Politician

"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, Politician

"This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind"

Jean Froissart, Historian

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