Speech Of Horace Mann Of Massachusetts In The House Of Representatives Feb 23 1849 On Slavery In The United States And The Slave Trade In The District Of Columbia

Author : Horace Mann
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781390756883
Total Pages : 54 pages
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Download or read book Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives, Feb. 23, 1849 written by Horace Mann and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-03-31 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts, in the House of Representatives, Feb. 23, 1849: On Slavery in the United States, and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia Sir, all this is done here under our own eyes, and within hearing of our own ears. All this is done now, and it has been done for fifty years, - ever since the seat of the National Government was established in this place, and ever since Congress, in accordance with the Constitution, has exercised exclusive legislation over it. But the gentleman from Indiana, though accustomed to visit this District from his boyhood, has never seen a negro sold here he has never seen a band of negroes taken off by the slave trader, he 7' does not remember to have seen the slave trader himself; he knows nothing of the slave pen that is so much talked about. Sir, the eye sees, not less from the inner than from the outer light. The eye sees what the mind is disposed to recognize. The image upon the retina is nothing, if there be not an inward sense to discern it. The artist sees beauty; the philosopher sees relations of cause and effect the bene volent man catches the slightest tone of sorrow; but the ia sensate heart can wade through tears and see no weeping, and can live amidst groans of anguish, and the air will be a non conductor of the sound. I know a true anecdote of an Ame rican gentleman who walked through the streets of London with a British nobleman and being beset at every step of the way by squalid mendicants, the American, at the end of the excursion, adverted to their having run a gauntlet between beggars. What beggars? Said his lordship, I have seen none. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.