The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 12Lee and Shepard, 1877 - Slavery |
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... CIVIL , BY ACT OF CON- GRESS . Letter to the Border State Convention at Baltimore , Sep- tember 8 , 1867 • · PAGE 1 • · • 184 · 187 ARE WE A NATION ? Address before the New York Young Men's Republican Union , at the Cooper Institute ...
... CIVIL , BY ACT OF CON- GRESS . Letter to the Border State Convention at Baltimore , Sep- tember 8 , 1867 • · PAGE 1 • · • 184 · 187 ARE WE A NATION ? Address before the New York Young Men's Republican Union , at the Cooper Institute ...
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... civil- ized , and divided into kingdoms , they are like to have so little regard of their originals as to acknowledge no subjection unto them they may also have a distinct commerce between 1 Works , ed . Wilkin , Vol . IV . p . 233 . 2 ...
... civil- ized , and divided into kingdoms , they are like to have so little regard of their originals as to acknowledge no subjection unto them they may also have a distinct commerce between 1 Works , ed . Wilkin , Vol . IV . p . 233 . 2 ...
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... Motto on title - page of Price's second tract on Civil Liberty , from Raynal , Histoire Philoso- phique et Politique , Liv . XIX . necessary amputation ; they are perhaps the only means of 50 PROPHETIC VOICES CONCERNING AMERICA .
... Motto on title - page of Price's second tract on Civil Liberty , from Raynal , Histoire Philoso- phique et Politique , Liv . XIX . necessary amputation ; they are perhaps the only means of 50 PROPHETIC VOICES CONCERNING AMERICA .
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... civil war begun , and a victory the first fruits of it on the side of the Americans , whom Lord Sand- wich had had the folly and rashness to proclaim cowards . " 3 His letters to the Countess of Ossory , written during the war , show ...
... civil war begun , and a victory the first fruits of it on the side of the Americans , whom Lord Sand- wich had had the folly and rashness to proclaim cowards . " 3 His letters to the Countess of Ossory , written during the war , show ...
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... civil gov- ernment , in direct opposition to the canon and the feudal systems . " " 14 This excellent statement was followed , in the original sketch communicated to the Sodality , by this passage , which does not appear in the printed ...
... civil gov- ernment , in direct opposition to the canon and the feudal systems . " " 14 This excellent statement was followed , in the original sketch communicated to the Sodality , by this passage , which does not appear in the printed ...
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Page 140 - or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed Baseness wafts perfume to Pride : No ; MEN, high-miuded MEN, Men, who their duties know, But know their
Page 206 - undertook to speak in the name of " the good people " of the Colonies. Here was a national act . In the Declaration of Rights which it put forth, — fit precursor of the Declaration of Independence,— it grandly claims, that, by the immutable laws of Nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several Charters,
Page 183 - And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, .... and they shall be no more two nations Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions.
Page 341 - expulsion from office, his vindication must be in every respect and on each charge beyond a doubt. He must show that his longer continuance in office is not inconsistent with the public safety,— " Or at least so prove it, That the probation bear no hinge nor loop To hang a doubt on.
Page 212 - of the Ohio, fertile and rich beyond imagination, where are now prosperous States rejoicing in the Union. All these cessions were on the condition that the lands should " be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States.
Page 381 - Constitution leaves no doubt as to the proper functions of the Supreme Court. It may hear and determine " all cases in law and equity arising under the Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made under their authority "; but
Page 230 - gives to them a national name, and this was his legacy: " The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Page 220 - in all our deliberations we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our National existence.
Page 355 - Provided, That the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, and of the Interior, the Postmaster-General, and the Attorney-General, shall hold their offices respectively for and during the term of the President by whom they may have been appointed and for one mouth thereafter, subject to removal by and with the advice and consent
Page 206 - Constitution, and the several Charters, all the inhabitants are " entitled to life, liberty, and property," and then announces "that the foundation of English liberty and of all free government is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council.