 Sir, the bill you are about to pass is at once the worst and the best on which Congress ever acted. Yes, sir, worst and best at the same time. It is the worst bill, inasmuch as it is a present victory of slavery. In a Christian land, and in an age of...  1865-1870 - Page 20by Sir Spencer Walpole - 1904Full view - About this book
 | 1901 - 604 pages
...Bill was, good eventually must ensue from it. ' This Bill,' wrote Sumner, ' is at once the worst Bill and ' the best Bill on which Congress ever acted....prepares the way for that ' " All hail ! hereafter" in which slavery must disappear.' The Bill had come from a Northern Senator (Douglas was a son of New... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 736 pages
...restored to her immortal birthright in the Republic. Sir, the Bill which you are now about to pass, is at once the worst and the best Bill on which Congress ever acted.. Yes, sir, WORST and REST at the same time. It is the worst Bill, inasmuch as it is a present victory... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 722 pages
...the worst and the best Bill on which Congress ever acted. Yes, sir, WOBST and BEST at the same time. It is the worst Bill, inasmuch as it is a present victory of Slavery. In a Christian land, and in an age of civilization, a time-honored statute of Freedom is struck down,... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - 1856 - 348 pages
...restored to her immortal birthright in the Republic. " Sir, the £itt which you are now about to pass, is at once the worst and the best Bill on which Congress ever acted. Yes, sir, WORST and BEST at the same time. " It is the worst Bill, inasmuch as it is a present victory... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...Bill," May 25, 1854. 70HTROSPECTIVE RESULTS OF THE BILL. SIR, the bill which you are now about to pass is at once the worst and the best bill on which Congress ever acted. Yes, sir, worst and best at the same time. It is the worst bill, inasmuch as it is a present victory... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1871 - 564 pages
...once the worst and the best on which Congress ever acted. Yes, Sir, WORST and BEST at the same time. It is the worst bill, inasmuch as it is a present victory of Slavery. In a Christian land, and in an age of civilization, a time-honored statute of Freedom is struck down,... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - History - 1874 - 524 pages
...once the worst and the best on which Congress ever acted. Yes, sir, WORST and BEST at the same time. " It is the worst bill, inasmuch as it is a present victory of slavery. In a Christian land, and in an age of civilization, a time-honored statute of freedom is struck down,... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin, Jane Dunbar Chaplin - Legislators - 1874 - 550 pages
...once the worst and the best on which Congress ever acted. Yes, sir, WORST and BEST at the same time. " It is the worst bill, inasmuch as it is a present victory of slavery. In a Christian land, and in an age of civilization, a time-honored statute of freedom is struck down,... | |
 | Charles Sumner Gleed - Kansas - 1880 - 290 pages
...the night of the passage of the KansasNebraska bill, said : Sir, the bill which you are about to pass is at once the worst and the best bill on which Congress...bill, inasmuch as it is a present victory of slavery. * * * Sir, it is best bill on which Congress ever acted, for it annuls all past compromises with slavery,... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...once the worst and the best on which Congress ever acted. Yes, sir, worst and best at the same time. It is the worst bill, inasmuch as it is a present victory of slavery. In a Christian land, and in an age of civilization, a time-honored statute of freedom is struck down,... | |
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