2024-07 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Imprint, "The Crime Against Kansas. The Apologies For the Crime. The True Remedy Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner In the Senate of The United States, 19th and 20th May, 1856", 9.5" x 6" printed stitched wraps. 32 pages. Sumner's speech denounced southern efforts to expand slavery into the Kansas Territory and rebuked Southern politicians such as Andrew Butler of South Carolina. In small part, "But the wickedness which I now begin to expose is immeasurably aggravated by the motive which prompted it. Not in any common lust for power did this uncommon tragedy have its origin. It is the rape of a virgin Territory, compelling it to the hateful embrace of slavery; and it may be clearly traced to a depraved longing for a new slave State, the hideous offspring of such a crime, in the hope of adding to the power of slavery in the national government. .... With regret I come again upon the senator from South Carolina [Mr. Butler] who, omnipresent in this debate, overflowed with rage at the simple suggestion that Kansas had applied for admission as a State; and, with incoherent phrases, discharged the loose expectoration of his speech, now upon her representative, and then upon her people. There was no extravagance of the ancient parliamentary debate which he did not repeat; nor was there any possible deviation from truth which he did not make, with so much of passion, I am glad to add, as to save him from the suspicion of intentional aberration. But the senator touches nothing which he does not disfigure with error
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