House Quote by Caleb Cushing

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon…

— Caleb Cushing

“Strange as it may seem, within plain sight of this same house, looking down from its commanding height upon it, was the Capitol. The…

— Solomon Northup

“The Constitution was a compromise between slaveholding interests of the South and moneyed interests of the North. For the purpose of uniting the thirteen…

— Howard Zinn

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this…

— Caleb Cushing

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the…

— Jefferson Davis

I say, then, that viewed from that standpoint, there is but one single subject of complaint which Virginia has to make against the government…

— John Brown Baldwin

“In 1866, Congress enforced the abolition of slavery by passing a Civil Rights Act, prohibiting actions that it deemed perpetuated the characteristics of slavery.…

— Richard Rothstein

An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.

— Abraham Lincoln

“The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“It reminded me of a time thirteen centuries away, when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by…

— Mark Twain

The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.

— Michele Bachmann

The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion…

— Isham G. Harris