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on 1/30/1792
"The [Presidents] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety."
on 6/28/1792
"Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments."
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on 8/10/1792
Stand of during storming of Tuileries palace by mob during French Revolution majority of them ended up massacred 10 August by Motte
in 1792
"In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts. "
on 6/1792
"Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down upon their fellow creatures with contempt, esteeming them as dogs or devils, and imagining themselves beings of superior dignity and importance, to whom all are indebted. This banishes the idea, and unqualifies the mind for the practice of common justice."
![Picture of Francis Rawdon-Hastings Hastings in 1792 [Francis Rawdon, first Marquis of Hastings.]](http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1253565&t=w)
on 14/1792
Staunch advocate for African-American rights Congressman -1868 His early draft of the 14th Amendment includes the Equal Protection Clause the Privileges and Immunities Clause and the Due Process Clause All Americans are in his debt
