He earned the nicknamed in Congress "The Hell-Hound of Slavery" for relentlessly speaking out against slavery, fighting to lift the Gag Rule which prohibited discussion of slavery on the House floor. Democrats tried to censure him. In 1839, he introduced a constitutional amendment to ban slavery in all new states entering the Union.
On February 3, 1790, less than three months before he died, Ben Franklin petitioned Congress:"For promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the relief of free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and the Improvement of the Condition of the African Races ... That mankind are all formed by the same Almighty Being, alike objects of His care and equally designed for the enjoyment of happiness."
The U.S. Census Bureau statistics, 2009, report that over 24 million Americans play Basketball. KU Professor Michael Zogry added: “The story of Naismith’s creation of the game is widely known ... Less well-known is that his game also was meant to help build Christian character and to inculcate certain values of the muscular Christian movement.”
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U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge stated in 1919: "The United States is THE WORLD'S BEST HOPE ... Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance ... for if we stumble & fall,freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."
