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Page vii
... cause difference of opinion as to the fundamentals of good government . Sincere thinkers have long agreed that a govern- ment of law is the desideratum , and the true method of best securing such government was the great problem to be ...
... cause difference of opinion as to the fundamentals of good government . Sincere thinkers have long agreed that a govern- ment of law is the desideratum , and the true method of best securing such government was the great problem to be ...
Page ix
... cause the Constitution to be obeyed , has caused its supposed ample security to prove a mere delusion in the very hour of its utmost need . Our dear- bought experience of the last four years has fully proved that you cannot well do too ...
... cause the Constitution to be obeyed , has caused its supposed ample security to prove a mere delusion in the very hour of its utmost need . Our dear- bought experience of the last four years has fully proved that you cannot well do too ...
Page x
... cause , their only real effect having been to cause division and dissension at the North . But neither silliness nor timidity alone caused the resort to those measures . They were prompted by party hate , in pursuit of party vengeance ...
... cause , their only real effect having been to cause division and dissension at the North . But neither silliness nor timidity alone caused the resort to those measures . They were prompted by party hate , in pursuit of party vengeance ...
Page xii
... cause the cessation of parties formed or kept up for the main purpose of obtaining its power and pat- ronage , your recommendation may cause leading minds here to give the subject their serious attention , and perhaps enlist their ...
... cause the cessation of parties formed or kept up for the main purpose of obtaining its power and pat- ronage , your recommendation may cause leading minds here to give the subject their serious attention , and perhaps enlist their ...
Page 16
... cause civil war and perhaps dis- union . Having disregarded the warning , and by their acts ful- filled the prediction , they come under one of two alternatives , which equally prove them unworthy of popular trust . They either had not ...
... cause civil war and perhaps dis- union . Having disregarded the warning , and by their acts ful- filled the prediction , they come under one of two alternatives , which equally prove them unworthy of popular trust . They either had not ...
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Page 19 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 22 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers, be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can at...
Page 88 - I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve the Constitution to the best of my ability imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government, that nation, of which that Constitution was the organic law.
Page 88 - It was in the oath I took that I would to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the oath in using the power.
Page 203 - Perhaps the power of governing a territory belonging to the United States which has not, by becoming a State, acquired the means of self-government, may result necessarily from the fact that it is not within the jurisdiction of any particular State, and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States. The right to govern may be the inevitable consequence of the right to acquire territory.
Page 55 - The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.
Page 71 - ... that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
Page 29 - Nothing is more clearly written in the book of destiny than the emancipation of the blacks; and it is equally certain that the two races will never live in a state of equal freedom under the same government, so insurmountable are the barriers Which nature, habit, and opinions, have established between them...
Page 71 - And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.
Page 204 - The territory had been ceded as a conquest, and was to be preserved and governed as such until the sovereignty to which it had passed had legislated for it. That sovereignty was the United States, under the Constitution, by which power had been given to Congress to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States...