Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... desire ; and it is demonstrable that it was this constitutional provision that the Virginia legislature had in mind , as a last resort . The resolutions do not speak any- where of the right of a State , but use the plural number ...
... desire ; and it is demonstrable that it was this constitutional provision that the Virginia legislature had in mind , as a last resort . The resolutions do not speak any- where of the right of a State , but use the plural number ...
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... desire to call in question the motives of the gentlemen who composed that assembly ; I knew many of them to be in private life accomplished and honorable men , and I doubt not there were some among them who did not perceive the ...
... desire to call in question the motives of the gentlemen who composed that assembly ; I knew many of them to be in private life accomplished and honorable men , and I doubt not there were some among them who did not perceive the ...
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... desire than her expectation of the protection of the general Government . After that struggle was over she was an independent sovereign ; she owed no allegiance to the Government of the whole , except by the compact to pay her portion ...
... desire than her expectation of the protection of the general Government . After that struggle was over she was an independent sovereign ; she owed no allegiance to the Government of the whole , except by the compact to pay her portion ...
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... of the protest ) " be- cause they anxiously desire to live in peace with their brethren , to do all that in them lies to preserve and perpetuate the union of the States and the liberties of which it is 34 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES.
... of the protest ) " be- cause they anxiously desire to live in peace with their brethren , to do all that in them lies to preserve and perpetuate the union of the States and the liberties of which it is 34 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES.
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... desire . It will exist , in every State , but as a poor depend- ent on State permission . It must borrow leave to be ; and will be no longer than State pleasure , or State discretion , sees fit to grant the indulgence , and to prolong ...
... desire . It will exist , in every State , but as a poor depend- ent on State permission . It must borrow leave to be ; and will be no longer than State pleasure , or State discretion , sees fit to grant the indulgence , and to prolong ...
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Page 107 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 49 - Government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact...
Page 131 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 128 - ... a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 107 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 295 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
Page 128 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Page 240 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS...
Page 65 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country and the preservation of our federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our...
Page 68 - That the several states who"' -'formed that instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction; and, That a Nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy...