 | Virginia Mason - 1906 - 632 páginas
...demartds that the opportunity of exposing him should not be lost; and it is for this cause that I speak. " The Senator from South Carolina has read many books...polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight—I mean the harlot, slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words. Let her be impeached... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 436 páginas
...demands that the opportunity of exposing him should not be lost; and it is for the cause that I speak. The Senator from South Carolina has read many books...polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight—I mean the harlot. Slavery. For her his tongue is always profuse in words. Let her be impeached... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - 1914 - 718 páginas
...speech was delivered. Comparing Butler and Douglas with Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sumner said: "The Senator from South Carolina has read many books...and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him,—though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight; I mean the harlot Slavery.... | |
 | Jesse Macy - 1919 - 310 páginas
...of his address Sumner compared Senators Butler and Douglas to Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, saying: "The Senator from South Carolina has read many books...chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with senti- j ments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows,... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - 1927 - 918 páginas
...demands that the opportunity of exposing him should not be lost; and it is for the cause that I speak. The Senator from South Carolina has read many books...polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight—I mean the harlot, Slavery. For her, his tongue is always profuse in words. Let her be impeached... | |
 | Barbara Esposito, Lee Wood - 1982 - 233 páginas
...senators he attacked for their positions on slavery was Senator Butler from South Carolina who, he said, "has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows,...the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight... the harlot, Slavery..."23 While Sumner's speech brought abolitionist praise, it incurred slavemaster... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - 1955 - 468 páginas
...had lived in Washington with Atchison, Mason, and Hunter. Sumner snarled at him with biting sarcasm: The senator from South Carolina has read many books...course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the... | |
 | Lacy K. Ford - 1988 - 450 páginas
...Massachusetts, speaking in Congress on the alleged "Crime against Kansas," suggested that Senator AP Butler had "Chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and...in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight — 1 mean the harlot, slavery."33 Preston Brooks, a National Democrat and a cousin of the aging Butler.... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 páginas
..."its shameful imbecility from Slavery" had sent to the Senate in his person a "Don Quixote who had chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who . . . though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight — I mean the harlot, Slavery."10 Sumner's... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 páginas
..."its shameful imbecility from Slavery" had sent to the Senate in his person a "Don Quixote who had chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who . . . though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight — I mean the harlot, Slavery."10 Sumner's... | |
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The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always... 
