 | Edward Beecher - History - 1838 - 176 pages
...about some provisions which it does actually contain. But to coerce it into silence — to -^endeavor to restrain its free expression — to seek to compress...such endeavors would inevitably render it — should all this be attempted, I know nothing even in the Constitution or in the Union itself, which would... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Enslaved persons - 1839 - 160 pages
...about some provisions, which it does actually contain. But to coerce it into silence, — to endeavor to restrain its free expression, to seek to compress...such endeavors would inevitably render it, — should all this be attempted, I know nothing even in the constitution, or in the Union itself, which would... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - Orators - 1839 - 108 pages
...confine it, warm as it is, and more heated as such endeavors would inevitably render it — should all this be attempted ? I know nothing, even in the Constitution...be endangered by the explosion which might follow. THE SOUTH. Sir, does the honorable gentleman suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina name so... | |
 | Slavery - 1843 - 404 pages
...about some provisions, which it docs actually contain. But to cm ree it into silence, — to endeavor to restrain its free expression, to seek to compress...such endeavors would inevitably render it, — should all this be attempted, I know nothing even in the constitution, or in the Union itself, which would... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1843 - 582 pages
...about some provisions, which it does actually contain. But to coerce it into silence, — to endeavor to restrain its free expression, to seek to compress...such endeavors would inevitably render it, — should all this be attempted, I know nothing, even in the Constitution, or in the Union itself, which would... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - Slavery - 1843 - 598 pages
...confine it, warm as it is and more heated as such endeavors would inevitably render it, — should all this be attempted, I know nothing even in the constitution,...be endangered by the explosion which might follow. I see, therefore, no political necessity for the annexation of Texas to the Union ; no advantages to... | |
 | Criticism - 1853 - 666 pages
...regrets about some provisions which it does actually contain. But to coerce it into silence, to endeavor to restrain its free expression, to seek to compress...heated as such endeavors would inevitably render it, — VOL. u. 79 should this be attempted, I know nothing, even in the Constitution or in the Union itself,... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - Antislavery movements - 1845 - 84 pages
...about some provisions, which it does actually contain. But to coerce it into silence, — to endeavor to restrain its free expression, to seek to compress...such endeavors would inevitably render it, — should all this be attempted, I know nothing even in the constitution, or in the Union itself, which would... | |
 | 1844 - 454 pages
...conlain. But to coerce it into silence, — to endeavor to restrain its free expression, to seek lo compress and confine it, warm as it is, and more heated...such endeavors would inevitably render it, — should all this be attempted, I know nolhing, even in the constitulion, or in the union itself, which would... | |
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I believe it is entirely willing, to fulfil all existing engagements and all existing duties, to uphold and defend the Constitution as it is established, with whatever regrets about some provisions which it does actually contain. But to coerce it into... 
