No Compromise of Human Rights (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Sumner, Charles) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from No Compromise of Human Rights The Senate having under consideration the following joint resolution (H.R. No.51) proposing to amend the Constitution of the United States: fieeolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two thirds of both Houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, shall be valid as part of said Constitution, namely: Article. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed: Provided, That whenever the elective franchise shall be denied or abridged in any State on account of race or color, all persons therein of such race or color shall be excluded from the basis of representation. Mr. Sumner said: Mr. President: I hesitate to intrude again into this debate, which now, after.the intei jection of another debate on another question, is again renewed. I do it with unfeigned reluctance, and I hope not to trespass too much on yoTir patience. The question before us, even in its simplest form, is of incalculable importance; but it has an added interest, inasmuch as it ojiens the whole vast subject of reconstruction. Into this field I shall not be tempted at this time, except to express a short opinion on the general principles we should seek to establish. Treason must be made odious, and to this end power must be secured to loyal fellow-citizens. In doing this, two indispensable conditions cannot be forgotten: first, all who have been untrue to the Republic must for a certain time, constituting the transition period, be excluded from the partnership of government; and secondly, all who have been true to the Republic must be admitted into the partnership of government, according to the sovereign rule of the Constitution, which knows no distinction of color. Following these two simple commandments, there will be safety and peace, together with power and renown. Neglecting these two simple commandments, there must be peril and distraction, together with imbecility and dishonor. In the one way reconstruction will be easy; in the other way it will in any just sense be impossible. It may seem for the mom en; to succeed; but it must fail in the end. This is all I have to say at present on reconstruction, and I turn at once to the precise question Ijefore us. Pardon me, sir, if I remind you here on the threshold that there are two modes of debate. One is to attack the previous sjaeaker with personality of criticism or of manner. The other is to speak plainly on the question, and to deal directly according to your convictions with the principlesinvolved. Sometimes these two modes are allowed to intermingle. If ever there was an occasion when the first should be carefully avoided, when the question alone should be handled, and notthe previous speaker, when the attention should be directed exclusively to the principles involved, and not to any subordinate point of mere form, it is now, when we are asked to insert a new provision in the Constitution, fixing the basis of political power at the expense of fellow-citizens counted by millions. In this spirit I shall try to say what I have to say. To my mind, the occasion is too solemn for personal controversy, and I shall not be drawn into it. Character Op This Compromise. The proposition now before you is the most important ever brought into Congress, unless, perhaps, we may except the amendment abolishing slavery, and to my mind it is the most utterly reprehensible and unpardonable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.co
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