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... express . There was no part of his knowledge that was not an element of his practical power . He had not been made by any artificial process ; he had grown . Holding within himself the germ of a great life , he had reached out his roots ...
... express . There was no part of his knowledge that was not an element of his practical power . He had not been made by any artificial process ; he had grown . Holding within himself the germ of a great life , he had reached out his roots ...
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... express affirmation , and a real though it may be only a tacit recognition of property in a slave . Slavery was to him legally right and morally wrong . * " His vote is recorded against the pretence that slaves were property under the ...
... express affirmation , and a real though it may be only a tacit recognition of property in a slave . Slavery was to him legally right and morally wrong . * " His vote is recorded against the pretence that slaves were property under the ...
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... express aston- ishment or condemnation ? Poor Reeder has been the only man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended , and he has been bravely undeceived . " That Kansas will form a slave ...
... express aston- ishment or condemnation ? Poor Reeder has been the only man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended , and he has been bravely undeceived . " That Kansas will form a slave ...
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... express your preference that Kansas shall be free , you would vote for no man for Congress who would say the same thing publicly . No such man could be elected , from any district , of any slave state . You think Stringfellow & Co ...
... express your preference that Kansas shall be free , you would vote for no man for Congress who would say the same thing publicly . No such man could be elected , from any district , of any slave state . You think Stringfellow & Co ...
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... express his astonishment that any different view had ever been entertained ! " At length a squabble springs up between the president and the au- thor of the Nebraska bill , on the mere question of fact , whether the Lecompton ...
... express his astonishment that any different view had ever been entertained ! " At length a squabble springs up between the president and the au- thor of the Nebraska bill , on the mere question of fact , whether the Lecompton ...
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Page 219 - be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it.
Page 408 - Virginia, and also the counties of Berkely, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and •which exccpted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. " And, by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons
Page 324 - in such extreme tenderness of the citizen's liberty, that, practically, it relieves more of the guilty than the innocent, should, to a very limited extent, be violated? To state the question more directly: are all the laws but one to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated
Page 159 - follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all and revered by all ; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and, even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of
Page 403 - Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward,
Page 291 - the territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. From questions of this class, spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. "if the minority will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease. There is no alternative for continuing the government but acquiescence on
Page 408 - virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States.in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion,
Page 423 - Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier-boy, who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that, in such a case, to silence the agitator and save the boy, is not only constitutional, but withal a great mercy.
Page 291 - organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. No foresight can anticipate, nor any document of reasonable length contain, express provisions for all possible questions. Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by national or by state authorities ? The Constitution
Page 292 - wall between them. A husband and wile may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They can not but remain face to face ; and intercourse,