Speeches and Papers Relating to the Rebellion and the Overthrow of SlaveryLittle, Brown,, 1867 - 628 страница |
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... England were for the benefit of the sovereign ; and we have only to refer to the early charters , to see that all grants made were made by the king . The lands in America were never the property of the people of England , nor subject to ...
... England were for the benefit of the sovereign ; and we have only to refer to the early charters , to see that all grants made were made by the king . The lands in America were never the property of the people of England , nor subject to ...
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... England . The colonies were separate governments , having the same head , to be sure ; but the people of England had no rights of legislation over the people of America . The king was the acknowl- edged head of the colonial governments ...
... England . The colonies were separate governments , having the same head , to be sure ; but the people of England had no rights of legislation over the people of America . The king was the acknowl- edged head of the colonial governments ...
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... England than the people and Parliament of England are to the king's colonies in America . In harmony with this logical and constitutional exposition of American rights is the undisputed fact , that the Declaration of Independence was ...
... England than the people and Parliament of England are to the king's colonies in America . In harmony with this logical and constitutional exposition of American rights is the undisputed fact , that the Declaration of Independence was ...
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... England . Under such circumstances , if there were the proper degree of enterprise and public spirit , you would find great wealth . But what is the condition of Virginia to - day ? She has a public debt of thirty million of dollars ...
... England . Under such circumstances , if there were the proper degree of enterprise and public spirit , you would find great wealth . But what is the condition of Virginia to - day ? She has a public debt of thirty million of dollars ...
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... south , and the settlers of Pennsyl- vania , New York , and New England . But this difference could never have disturbed the harmony of our national relations . The disturbing influence of slavery is due to the fact 5 SECESSION . 65.
... south , and the settlers of Pennsyl- vania , New York , and New England . But this difference could never have disturbed the harmony of our national relations . The disturbing influence of slavery is due to the fact 5 SECESSION . 65.
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Страница 5 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Страница 5 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Страница 110 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Страница 605 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Страница 589 - That it -shall be the duty of each officer, assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Страница 349 - ... immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate Convention of all the States, or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of the States.
Страница 613 - States proposed by the thirty-ninth congress, and known as article fourteen ; and when said article shall have become a part of the constitution of the United States, said state shall be declared entitled to representation in congress, and senators and representatives shall be admitted therefrom on their taking the oath prescribed by law ; and then and thereafter the preceding sections of this act shall be inoperative in said state...
Страница 247 - Treason, but by and upon the Oaths and Testimony of Two lawful Witnesses, either both of them to the same Overt Act, or one of them to one, and the other of them to another Overt Act of the same Treason...
Страница 349 - American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war during which, under the pretense of a military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty and the public...
Страница 110 - The fact is so; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths; such were our Gothic ancestors; such in our days were the Poles; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.