Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 16Mayo Williamson Hazeltine |
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Page 6569
... idea , and almost the language , too , of the Nebraska Act . On one occasion , his exact language is : " Except in cases when the power is restrained by the Con- stitution of the United States , the law of the State is su- premne over ...
... idea , and almost the language , too , of the Nebraska Act . On one occasion , his exact language is : " Except in cases when the power is restrained by the Con- stitution of the United States , the law of the State is su- premne over ...
Page 6579
... idea of secession is the essence of anarchy . A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations , and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments , is the only true sovereign of ...
... idea of secession is the essence of anarchy . A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations , and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments , is the only true sovereign of ...
Page 6590
... idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words , by which a man can prove a horse - chestnut to be a chestnut horse . I will say here while upon this subject that I have ...
... idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words , by which a man can prove a horse - chestnut to be a chestnut horse . I will say here while upon this subject that I have ...
Page 6592
... idea that I withheld supplies from the soldiers who were fighting in the Mexican war or did anything else to hinder the soldiers , he is to say the least grossly and altogether mistaken , as a consultation of the records will prove to ...
... idea that I withheld supplies from the soldiers who were fighting in the Mexican war or did anything else to hinder the soldiers , he is to say the least grossly and altogether mistaken , as a consultation of the records will prove to ...
Page 6632
... idea that there could be property in man . To show all this is easy and certain . When this obvious mistake of the judges shall be brought to their notice , is it not reasonable to expect that they will withdraw the mistaken statement ...
... idea that there could be property in man . To show all this is easy and certain . When this obvious mistake of the judges shall be brought to their notice , is it not reasonable to expect that they will withdraw the mistaken statement ...
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Page 6586 - 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 with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said that "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 6582 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 6575 - I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 6583 - 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. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
Page 6563 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 6585 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Page 6585 - 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 bondman's two hundred and fifty years...
Page 6575 - I take the official oath today with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed, than to violate any of them, trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.
Page 6578 - All profess to be content in the Union if all constitutional rights can be maintained. Is it true, then, that any right plainly written in the Constitution has been denied? I think not. Happily, the human mind is so constituted that no party can reach to the audacity of doing this. Think, if you can, of a single instance in which a plainly written provision of the Constitution has ever been denied. If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional...
Page 6568 - ... bring such piece in ; in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin, and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck.