Existing comment:
We have besides these men -- descended by blood from our ancestors -- among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men ... whose ancestors have come hither and settled here,
FINDING THEMSELVES OUR EQUALS IN ALL THINGS.
If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none...
But when we look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,'
and then they fee that the moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are. |