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... believe . He possessed also by nature an exceptional capacity for the detection of faulty reasoning ; and his exercise of the power of analysis in his work at the Bar proved of great service later in widening his influence as a ...
... believe . He possessed also by nature an exceptional capacity for the detection of faulty reasoning ; and his exercise of the power of analysis in his work at the Bar proved of great service later in widening his influence as a ...
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... believe that it is for the advantage of this country to put no restriction to the extension of slavery ? " Doug- las wriggled and squirmed under this direct ques- tioning and his final replies gave satisfaction neither to the Northern ...
... believe that it is for the advantage of this country to put no restriction to the extension of slavery ? " Doug- las wriggled and squirmed under this direct ques- tioning and his final replies gave satisfaction neither to the Northern ...
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... believe that a man who could influence Western audiences could have anything to say that would count with the cultivated citizens of the East . The more optimistic of the hearers were hoping , however , that perhaps a new Henry Clay had ...
... believe that a man who could influence Western audiences could have anything to say that would count with the cultivated citizens of the East . The more optimistic of the hearers were hoping , however , that perhaps a new Henry Clay had ...
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... believe in your institution . How is this condition going to be changed by war even under the assump- tion that the war may be successful in securing your independence ? Your slave territory will still adjoin territory inhabited by free ...
... believe in your institution . How is this condition going to be changed by war even under the assump- tion that the war may be successful in securing your independence ? Your slave territory will still adjoin territory inhabited by free ...
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... moment had been unwilling to believe in the possibility of civil war , that the nation could be preserved only by fighting for its exist- ence . It remained to organise the men of the Maintenance of National Existence 59.
... moment had been unwilling to believe in the possibility of civil war , that the nation could be preserved only by fighting for its exist- ence . It remained to organise the men of the Maintenance of National Existence 59.
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Page 270 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 152 - ... but I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
Page 170 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 284 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 269 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions, are erected ; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter shall he formed in the said Territory...
Page 128 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 265 - If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong, and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality, its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension, its enlargement. All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong.
Page 261 - Also, it would be open to show, by contemporaneous history, that this mode of alluding to slaves and slavery, instead of speaking of them, was employed on purpose to exclude from the Constitution the 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, and reconsider the conclusion based upon it ? And then it is to be remembered...
Page 239 - Confederation; and two more of the "thirtynine" who afterward signed the Constitution were in that Congress, and voted on the question. They were William Blount and William Few; and they both voted for the prohibition — thus showing that in their understanding no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory.
Page 171 - 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.