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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 24: Slavery and the law of nations.—1842.—Age, 31. (search)
reole question is noted by Mr. Ticknor, who names him as the only person he met, who was vehement against Mr. Webster's letter. Life of George Ticknor, Vol. II. p. 199. It appears also in his vigorous letters, written at the time, to Mr. Harvey and Dr. Lieber. He replied in the Advertiser to some legal criticisms which a correspondent of that journal had made on Dr. Channing's pamphlet. His article was printed April 18. The articles of Dr. Channing's critic, signed C., were printed April 14 and 25. In this reply, he said:— It would ill accord with the spirit of English law to allow the liberty of a human being to be restrained by the meshes of technicalities like those woven by the writer in the Advertiser. The single vigorous principle that within the British Empire no right of property can exist in a human being extends like a flaming sword around all its courts and territories, cutting asunder the bonds of every slave who approaches English earth. Not only his pa