User talk:Jonah Robson/sandbox

Douglass continued to grow in fame and stature, giving lectures around the northern states. On one occasion he deliberately attacked the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas Nebraska Act in a speech given at Rochester College in Chicago on October 30, 1854. Here he stated, "The only intelligible principle on which popular sovereignty is founded, is found in the Declaration of American Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with the right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”” Later going on to say, “The right of each man to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, is the basis of all social and political right, and, therefore, how brass-fronted and shameless is that impudence, which while it aims to rob men of their liberty, and to deprive them of the right to the pursuit of happiness—screams itself hoarse to the words of popular sovereignty."