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" 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 74
by William Henry Seward - 1853
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California, Union, and Freedom

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...
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The Law-abiding Conscience, and the Higher Law Conscience: With Remarks on ...

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...
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Lives of the Governors of the State of New York

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...
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The Higher Law, in Its Relations to Civil Government: With Particular ...

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...
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The Higher Law, in Its Relations to Civil Government: With Particular ...

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...
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The Nebraska Question: Comprising Speeches in the United States Senate

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...
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The Nebraska Question

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...
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The Nebraska Question: Comprising Speeches in the United States Senate by Mr ...

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...
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The Life of William H. Seward with Selections from His Works

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...
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Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers

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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