 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1900 - 404 pages
...slaves without our assistance 1 If you can l Edinburgh Review, VoL XLI. p. 481. still rise up and lie down in security, — if you can still eat the bread...Parliament and people of England, — to what do you owe it ? " * The sensitiveness of slave property — the same in our Slave States as in the British West Indies... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1871 - 468 pages
...to protect yourselves against your slaves without our assistance? If you can still rise up and lie down in security, — if you can still eat the bread...Parliament and people of England, — to what do you owe it ? " 1 The sensitiveness of slave property — the same in our Slave States as in the British West Indies... | |
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Are you, in point of fact, at this moment able to protect yourselves against your slaves without our assistance ? If you can still rise up and lie down in security — if you can still eat the bread of the fatherless, and grind the faces of the poor —... 
