The Slavery Question : Speech of Hon. C.C. Washburn, of Wisconsin : Delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives, April 26, 1860
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What adds ' to the wonder is, that this abominable prac- ' tice has been introduced in the most enlight- ' ened ages. Times that seem to have pre- ' tensions to boast of high improvements in ' the arts and sciences, and refined morality, ! have brought into general use, and guarded ' by many laws, a species of violence and tyran- ' ny which our more rude and barbarous, but ' more honest, ancestors detested." Again, this great orator says : " It would rejoice my very soul that every one ' of my ...fellow-beings was emancipated. We ' ought to lament and deplore the necessity of 1 holding our fellow-men in bondage. Believe | me, I shall honor the Quakers for their noble 1 efforts to abolish slavery." On the 20th of October, 1774, while Congress was in session in Philadelphia, Peyton Ran- dolph, President, the following resolution, among others, was unanimously adopted : u That we will neither import nor purchase 1 any slaves imported after the 1st day of De- ' cember next ; after which time, we will wholly ' discontinue the slave trade, and will neither 1 be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire ' our vessels, nor sell our commodities or man- ' ufactures, to those who are concerned in it" "On motion of Mr.
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