1856 SLAVERY. The Speech that God Charles Sumner Beat Unconscious on the Senate Floor! Exposition ] The Voices of Silence

] The Voices of Silence

Lovely inscription and autograph on the blank title in the hand of Moody Stuart dating to the year of the book's first release

*A fine engraving of His Royal Highness Prince Edward

Especially for those in traditions with a strong view of the family as ekklesia

Attractive ex library label on pastedown from period

1856 SLAVERY. The Speech that God Charles Sumner Beat Unconscious on the Senate Floor! Exposition ] The Voices of SilenceOne of the most severe and acidic anti slavery discourses of the period. Sumners Crimes Against Kansas refer to the proslavery violence that was sweeping across the Kansas. He compared slavery expansion into the new States as the rape of a virgin territory and as a transparent attempt at building the proslavery voting block in Congress. The speech so incensed southerners that South Carolina Congressman, Preston Smith Brooks, beat Sumner to the point