William H. Seward Quotes About Slaves

Quotes about: Slaves

• We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

  William H. Seward

  War, Slavery, Bondage

• The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

  William H. Seward

  Country, War, Two

• But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.

  William H. Seward

  Law, Would Be, Answers

• The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.

  William H. Seward

  War, Slave, States

• But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

  William H. Seward

  Fall, Men, Law

• The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

  William H. Seward

  Class, Southern, Slave

• I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

  William H. Seward

  Mean, Texas, Framed

• There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

  William H. Seward

  Alternatives, Slavery, States

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