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... duty , far above all others of a political character , and instead of acting as a counterpoise or check , serve as a great aid to the arbitrary domination of the party . This suicidal vice in our institutions was seen long ago , and it ...
... duty , far above all others of a political character , and instead of acting as a counterpoise or check , serve as a great aid to the arbitrary domination of the party . This suicidal vice in our institutions was seen long ago , and it ...
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... duty , at so momentous a crisis , by such a specimen of shameful timidity as this pretense of a platform ? If that platform gave entire satisfaction to any single member of the Convention , it has had no such success with any ...
... duty , at so momentous a crisis , by such a specimen of shameful timidity as this pretense of a platform ? If that platform gave entire satisfaction to any single member of the Convention , it has had no such success with any ...
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... duty of American patriotism . All supersedure of the Constitution by an alleged higher law , law of necessity or of war , are mere pretexts for unnecessary usurpation by would - be tyrants . It gives ample power to meet all the ...
... duty of American patriotism . All supersedure of the Constitution by an alleged higher law , law of necessity or of war , are mere pretexts for unnecessary usurpation by would - be tyrants . It gives ample power to meet all the ...
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... duties of the Executive Department of the Government . Currency and Legal Tender . " Ours was intended to be a hard - money government . " So said an eminent expounder of the Constitution , and history confirms what he said . The ...
... duties of the Executive Department of the Government . Currency and Legal Tender . " Ours was intended to be a hard - money government . " So said an eminent expounder of the Constitution , and history confirms what he said . The ...
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... duty by offsetting the volunteered lives of citizens of other States with the roughest of untutored negroes , it is unreasonable in Massachusetts to expect the nation to permit the war to be prolonged upon a policy which promises ...
... duty by offsetting the volunteered lives of citizens of other States with the roughest of untutored negroes , it is unreasonable in Massachusetts to expect the nation to permit the war to be prolonged upon a policy which promises ...
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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...