The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 11Lee and Shepard, 1877 - Antislavery movements |
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... less " ; but all this was of no avail . How often during the war have I pleaded for such patriots , and urged to every effort for their redemption ! — and now , when our arms have prevailed , it is they who are cast down , while the ...
... less " ; but all this was of no avail . How often during the war have I pleaded for such patriots , and urged to every effort for their redemption ! — and now , when our arms have prevailed , it is they who are cast down , while the ...
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... less at home than abroad . Fellow - citizens , allow me to gather the whole case into brief compass . The President , wielding the One Man Power , has assumed a prerogative over Congress utterly unjustifiable , while he has dictated a ...
... less at home than abroad . Fellow - citizens , allow me to gather the whole case into brief compass . The President , wielding the One Man Power , has assumed a prerogative over Congress utterly unjustifiable , while he has dictated a ...
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... less than a revolution . But you will succeed . The revolution must prevail . What are called civil rights have been accorded already ; but every argument for these is equally important for po- litical rights , which cannot be denied ...
... less than a revolution . But you will succeed . The revolution must prevail . What are called civil rights have been accorded already ; but every argument for these is equally important for po- litical rights , which cannot be denied ...
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... Chamber , and in the Chamber at the other end of the Capitol . Our strife is civic , but it should be none the less strenuous . FEMALE SUFFRAGE , AND AN EDUCATIONAL TEST OF MALE SUFFRAGE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF RECONSTRUCTION . 47.
... Chamber , and in the Chamber at the other end of the Capitol . Our strife is civic , but it should be none the less strenuous . FEMALE SUFFRAGE , AND AN EDUCATIONAL TEST OF MALE SUFFRAGE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF RECONSTRUCTION . 47.
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... less than a gen- eral abdication . Such , I say emphatically , is the duty of the hour , in presence of which it is vain for the Senator to cite the experience of other times , when no such duty was urgent . He does not meet the case ...
... less than a gen- eral abdication . Such , I say emphatically , is the duty of the hour , in presence of which it is vain for the Senator to cite the experience of other times , when no such duty was urgent . He does not meet the case ...
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Page 157 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 78 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 83 - Books, maps, and charts, specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith for the use of any society incorporated or established for philosophical, literary, or religious purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use, or by the order, of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States.
Page 236 - Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow, From wastes that slumber in eternal snow ; And waft, across the waves' tumultuous roar, The wolf's long howl from Oonalaska's shore.
Page 79 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.
Page 285 - Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand : For hot, cold, moist and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery...
Page 37 - Euphrates, and the Arabian fleet might have sailed without a naval combat into the mouth of the Thames. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.
Page 102 - ... that the elective franchise shall be enjoyed equally and impartially by all male citizens of the United States, twenty-one years old and upward, without regard to race, color, or previous condition of servitude, except such as may be disfranchised for participating in the late rebellion...
Page 69 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 427 - Sec. 2. And be it further resolved, That it shall be the duty of said...