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... speech or of the press . " Here is a difficulty . How shall we of the North satisfy a slaveholding South , unless we not only surrender the dearest of a freeman's rights , but also either violate the Constitution , or else amend it so ...
... speech or of the press . " Here is a difficulty . How shall we of the North satisfy a slaveholding South , unless we not only surrender the dearest of a freeman's rights , but also either violate the Constitution , or else amend it so ...
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... Speech of Mr. Stephens as reported in the " Savannah Republican . " It is thence copied into " Putnam's Rebellion Record , " vol . i . , document 48 , pp . 44 to 49 . The Republican , in publishing this address , says : " Mr. Stephens ...
... Speech of Mr. Stephens as reported in the " Savannah Republican . " It is thence copied into " Putnam's Rebellion Record , " vol . i . , document 48 , pp . 44 to 49 . The Republican , in publishing this address , says : " Mr. Stephens ...
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... speech or writing , the idea on which the existing Government was based ; to the Tudor and Stuart age of England : the only difference being that while under the old English rule , it was punishable as sedition to question the right ...
... speech or writing , the idea on which the existing Government was based ; to the Tudor and Stuart age of England : the only difference being that while under the old English rule , it was punishable as sedition to question the right ...
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Page 8 - 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 12 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 14 - Europe are not without their use to the historian of the human mind. Immovably moored to the same station by the strength of their cables and the weight of their anchors, they enable him to measure the rapidity of the current by which the rest of the world are borne along.
Page 6 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Page 12 - ... when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference) The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 11 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.
Page 4 - A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be intrusted with the administration of the common Government because he has declared that that 'Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free,' and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.
Page 11 - The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. But previous to the enfranchisement of the slaves we have, it is necessary to exclude all further importations from Africa; yet our repeated attempts to effect this by prohibitions, and by imposing duties which might amount to...
Page 4 - Sectional interest and animosity will deepen the irritation, and all hope of remedy is rendered vain, by the fact that public opinion at the North has invested a great political error with the sanctions of a more erroneous religious belief.