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Page 82
... Slavery now repealed and dishonored - the Compromise , as explained and urged , is a curtailment of the actual powers of legislation , and a perpetual denial of the indisputable principle that the right to deliberate is co - extensive ...
... Slavery now repealed and dishonored - the Compromise , as explained and urged , is a curtailment of the actual powers of legislation , and a perpetual denial of the indisputable principle that the right to deliberate is co - extensive ...
Page 83
... Slavery , though plain and obvious , are constantly mis- understood . A popular belief at this moment makes Slavery a national institution , and , of course , renders its support a national duty . The extravagance of this error can ...
... Slavery , though plain and obvious , are constantly mis- understood . A popular belief at this moment makes Slavery a national institution , and , of course , renders its support a national duty . The extravagance of this error can ...
Page 84
... Slavery . Ac- cording to a curious tradition of the French language , Louis XIV . , the grand monarch , by an accidental error of speech , among supple courtiers , changed the gender of a noun ; but Slavery has done more . It has ...
... Slavery . Ac- cording to a curious tradition of the French language , Louis XIV . , the grand monarch , by an accidental error of speech , among supple courtiers , changed the gender of a noun ; but Slavery has done more . It has ...
Page 85
... SLAVERY . These will be readily apparent , if we do not neglect well - estab- lished principles . as If Slavery be national , if there be any power in the National Government to uphold this institution - in the recent Slave Act - it ...
... SLAVERY . These will be readily apparent , if we do not neglect well - estab- lished principles . as If Slavery be national , if there be any power in the National Government to uphold this institution - in the recent Slave Act - it ...
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Charles Sumner. - Of course every power to uphold Slavery must have an origin as distinct as that of Slavery itself . Every presumption must be as strong against such a power as against Slavery . A power so peculiar and offen- sive so ...
Charles Sumner. - Of course every power to uphold Slavery must have an origin as distinct as that of Slavery itself . Every presumption must be as strong against such a power as against Slavery . A power so peculiar and offen- sive so ...
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Page 153 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 514 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Page 609 - 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 344 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 28 - January, 1819, shall remain exempt from any tax laid by order, or under any authority of the State, whether for State, county, or township, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the day of sale...
Page 344 - It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the supreme judges when it may be brought before them for judicial decision.
Page 296 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 251 - Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees, and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited.
Page 130 - No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Page 266 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the...