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NO COMPROMISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS. NO ADMISSION IN THE CONSTITUTION OF INEQUALITY OF RIGHTS, OR DISFRANCHISEMENT ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Proposed Amendment of the Constitution Fixing the Basis of Representation; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 7, 1866 by Charles Sumner - 1866

by Charles Sumner

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NO COMPROMISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS. NO ADMISSION IN THE CONSTITUTION OF INEQUALITY OF RIGHTS, OR DISFRANCHISEMENT ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Proposed Amendment of the Constitution Fixing the Basis of Representation; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 7, 1866 by Charles Sumner - 1866

NO COMPROMISE OF HUMAN RIGHTS. NO ADMISSION IN THE CONSTITUTION OF INEQUALITY OF RIGHTS, OR DISFRANCHISEMENT ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on the Proposed Amendment of the Constitution Fixing the Basis of Representation; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 7, 1866

by Charles Sumner

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Washington: printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1866. Disbound. Octavo. 22 pp. Unbound, untrimmed; folds intact; two horizontal creases where it was tri-folded at some point. An uncommon Congressional speeches on the civil right by Massachusetts senator and outspoken abolitionist, Charles Sumner.
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  • Publisher printed at the Congressional Globe Office
  • Place of Publication Washington
  • Date Published 1866
  • Size Octavo

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Washington [D.C.]: Printed at The Congressional Globe Office, 1866. 22, [2 (blank)]pp. 8vo., folded sheets, unopened and untrimmed. Scattered foxing; Very Good. Second of two important 1866 speeches given by abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, a leading advocate for civil rights for Black Americans.  Sumner attacks weak language within the proposed Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution addressing citizenship rights and the guarantee of equal protection under the law. He decries the amendment's failure to protect Black voting rights and "the wretched pretension of a white man's Government." In ten points, Sumner argues that it would enshrine "Inequality of Rights" in the Constitution, sanction "the acknowledged tyranny of taxation without representation," concede the controversial nature of State Rights, and be a "constitutional recognition of an Oligarchy, Aristocracy, Caste, and Monopoly, founded on color," etc. etc. (p13) Nebenzahl 14-548: "A further attack on the second… Read More
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