But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble 'purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator The Works of William H. Seward - Page 74by William Henry Seward - 1853Full view - About this book
| William Henry Seward - California - 1850 - 24 pages
...there is a higher law than the Constitution, hich regulates our authority over the domain, anddevotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a...heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the Universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable... | |
| Samuel Thayer Spear - 1850 - 36 pages
...defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a layh.er law than the Constitution, which regnlates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part—no inconsiderable part—of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator... | |
| John Stilwell Jenkins - Governors - 1851 - 872 pages
...the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which...over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purpoeea The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed... | |
| William Hosmer - History - 1852 - 206 pages
...stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which...heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable... | |
| William Hosmer - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1852 - 226 pages
...stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which...heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable... | |
| Compromise of 1850 - 1854 - 144 pages
...slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which...heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the Universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable... | |
| 1854 - 136 pages
...stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which...heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the Universe. We 'eel up î are h is stewards, and must во discharge our trust as to secure in... | |
| Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - Amazon River - 1854 - 234 pages
...slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which...heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the Universe. We are his stewards, and raust en discharge our trust as to secure in the highest... | |
| George E. Baker - 1855 - 424 pages
...; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a Higher Law than the constitution, which...heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable... | |
| David W. Bartlett, D. W. (David W. ). Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 408 pages
...constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare and to liberty. BUT THEKE is A HIGHER LAW THAN THE CONSTITUTION, WHICH REGULATES...heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust, as to secure in the highest... | |
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