Speeches and Letters of Gerrit Smith ... on the Rebellion ...J. A. Gray & Green, printers, 1865 - United States |
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... enslaving or chattelizing of men , is at war with nature , there can be no law . I now add that nothing is law which can not be administered in the spirit of honesty . Every judge , every commissioner , who remanded his poor trembling ...
... enslaving or chattelizing of men , is at war with nature , there can be no law . I now add that nothing is law which can not be administered in the spirit of honesty . Every judge , every commissioner , who remanded his poor trembling ...
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... enslaving or chattelizing men , the subject - matter is itself foreign to nature and an outrage upon nature , there the courts will hold that there is no law to interpret , and that the action of the legislature is void . In other words ...
... enslaving or chattelizing men , the subject - matter is itself foreign to nature and an outrage upon nature , there the courts will hold that there is no law to interpret , and that the action of the legislature is void . In other words ...
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... enslavement of a white man clauses which no more point and express themselves to this end than do the clauses in question to the end of enslaving the black man , would be held by all to be ridiculous , insulting , and infamous to the ...
... enslavement of a white man clauses which no more point and express themselves to this end than do the clauses in question to the end of enslaving the black man , would be held by all to be ridiculous , insulting , and infamous to the ...
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... enslavement of any portion or any variety of the people . That this doctrine that the States made the Constitution has obtained so long and so widely , is not strange . There are thousands of doctrines , and this is one of them , which ...
... enslavement of any portion or any variety of the people . That this doctrine that the States made the Constitution has obtained so long and so widely , is not strange . There are thousands of doctrines , and this is one of them , which ...
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... enslavement , and the less they would speak of and pity its wrongs . The first and last and never - ceas- ing lesson which that party taught Irish immigrants was hatred , murderous hatred , of the negro . Nothing went so far to inflame ...
... enslavement , and the less they would speak of and pity its wrongs . The first and last and never - ceas- ing lesson which that party taught Irish immigrants was hatred , murderous hatred , of the negro . Nothing went so far to inflame ...
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