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Jeremiah Jones Colbath , mais conhecido como Henry Wilson, foi um senador de Massachusetts é o décimo oitavo vice-presidente dos Estados Unidos.

Ele era um líder republicano que dedicou sua energia para a destruição do que ele considerou uma escravocracia, a conspiração dos donos de escravos para apreender o controle do governo federal e bloquear o progresso de liberdade. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Fevereiro 1812 – 22. Novembro 1875
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Henry Wilson: Frases em inglês

“I believe that every human being has the right to his life and to his liberty, and to act in this world so as to secure his own happiness.”

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"Debate with Jefferson Davis"

“We are strong and powerful now, able to drive into the ocean any power on earth that should step, with ostile foot, upon the fsoil of the republic. But it was not always so. In our days of weakness, the men of this wronged race gave their blood freely for the defense and liberties of the country. The first victim of the Boston Massacre, on the 5th of March 1770, which made the fires of resistance burn more intensely, was a colored man. Hundreds of colored men entered the ranks and fought bravely on all the fields of the Revolution.”

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Fonte: Speech (June 1853), p. 80

“The natural equality of all men I believe in, as far as rights are concerned.”

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"Debate with Jefferson Davis"

“The idea which pervades our Constitution; that all men of every race are equal before the laws.”

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Fonte: Speech (June 1853), p. 79

“I would give to all men, of every clime and race, of every faith and creed, freedom and equality”

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As quoted in Colored Patriots of the American Revolution https://books.google.com/books?id=Jy8OAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107 (1855), by William Cooper Nell, p. 107
Speech (June 1853)
Contexto: A colored battalion was organized for the defense of New Orleans, and General Jackson publicly thanked them for their courage and conduct. When the country has required their blood in days of trial and conflict, they have given it freely, and we have accepted it. But, in times of peace, when their blood is not needed, we spurn and trample them under foot. I have no part in this great wrong to a race. Wherever and whenever we have the power to do it, I would give to all men, of every clime and race, of every faith and creed, freedom and equality before the law. My voice and my voice shall ever be given for the equality of all of the children of men before the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States.

“Equality before the law of all men, no matter where they born, or from what race they sprung, is the sentiment of the people.”

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Fonte: Speech (June 1853), p. 79

“When the Union needs my poor support, in peace or in war, I induge the hope that I shall not fail in the performance of any duty which may be required me. At any rate, I hope not to fall behind that class of men who are, on all occasions, blurting their devotion to the Union into the unwilling ears of the country.”

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Fonte: Speech (June 1853), p. 78