Papers of the American Historical Association, Volume 2G. P. Putnam's Sons., 1888 - History Include proceedings of the annual meetings. |
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... reason that no other government is suited to their social and political condition . The United States have never im- portuned or encouraged others to adopt their principles of government prematurely . What traits belong specially to ...
... reason that no other government is suited to their social and political condition . The United States have never im- portuned or encouraged others to adopt their principles of government prematurely . What traits belong specially to ...
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... reason and conviction , and not by force or violence ; and , therefore , that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exer- cise of religion , according to the dictates of conscience , unpunished and unrestrained by the ...
... reason and conviction , and not by force or violence ; and , therefore , that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exer- cise of religion , according to the dictates of conscience , unpunished and unrestrained by the ...
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... reason and not by force , and the state- ment embodied in the question of Milton , " who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ? " And these he expanded in a magnificent preamble which intro- duced the following ...
... reason and not by force , and the state- ment embodied in the question of Milton , " who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter ? " And these he expanded in a magnificent preamble which intro- duced the following ...
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... reason and conviction , not by force or violence ; and there- fore all men have an equal , natural , and inalienable right to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of con- science , and that no particular sect or ...
... reason and conviction , not by force or violence ; and there- fore all men have an equal , natural , and inalienable right to the free exercise of religion according to the dictates of con- science , and that no particular sect or ...
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... reason sufficient for the permanent remembrance of The March of the Span- iards across Illinois . Abstract of Dr. Andrews ' Paper . The next communication was by Dr. Israel W. Andrews , of Marietta College , Ohio , on " The North - West ...
... reason sufficient for the permanent remembrance of The March of the Span- iards across Illinois . Abstract of Dr. Andrews ' Paper . The next communication was by Dr. Israel W. Andrews , of Marietta College , Ohio , on " The North - West ...
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Page 63 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Page 28 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Page 63 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 117 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Page 63 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn by the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, that ' the judgments of the l,ord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 26 - THAT NO MAN SHALL BE COMPELLED to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever...
Page 128 - But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified ; for these things must first come to pass, but the end is not by and by.
Page 27 - Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should " make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church...
Page 61 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Page 25 - That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.