The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 9Lee and Shepard, 1874 - Slavery |
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... natural born citizen . " He may be of the District of Columbia , or of a Territory , or of a Rebel State ; for these are all equally within the rightful jurisdiction of the United States , and this is enough . The national jurisdiction ...
... natural born citizen . " He may be of the District of Columbia , or of a Territory , or of a Rebel State ; for these are all equally within the rightful jurisdiction of the United States , and this is enough . The national jurisdiction ...
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Charles Sumner. Government that the majority should rule . A majority is the natural base of a republic . To found a republic on a minority is scarcely less impracticable than to stand a pyramid on its apex . Secondly . The proposed ...
Charles Sumner. Government that the majority should rule . A majority is the natural base of a republic . To found a republic on a minority is scarcely less impracticable than to stand a pyramid on its apex . Secondly . The proposed ...
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... nature of the case , ordinary polit- ical conditions are disturbed or subverted , and electoral power loses its essential character , so as to be no longer entitled to that peculiar respect which it enjoys under American institutions ...
... nature of the case , ordinary polit- ical conditions are disturbed or subverted , and electoral power loses its essential character , so as to be no longer entitled to that peculiar respect which it enjoys under American institutions ...
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... natural , obvious , and constitutional origin for the new govern- ment . Without it , I am at a loss to see how the con- necting link of legality can be preserved between the old and the new . This is not the first time in our na ...
... natural , obvious , and constitutional origin for the new govern- ment . Without it , I am at a loss to see how the con- necting link of legality can be preserved between the old and the new . This is not the first time in our na ...
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... nature provisional . It was not complete or permanent , but evidently looked to the action of the legislative power ... natural . But the limitation is clear . Admitting it right to authorize the establishment of a local government for ...
... nature provisional . It was not complete or permanent , but evidently looked to the action of the legislative power ... natural . But the limitation is clear . Admitting it right to authorize the establishment of a local government for ...
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Page 79 - Portsmouth and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...
Page 282 - Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 450 - ... condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. "And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 427 - And I will punish the world for their evil, And the wicked for their iniquity ; And I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. I will make a man more precious than fine gold ; Even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Page 389 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 470 - And they, who to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.
Page 411 - ... party, bring themselves to give up the charming hope; but with greedier anxiety they rush about him, sustain him, and give him marches, triumphal entries, and receptions beyond what even in the days of his highest prosperity they could have brought about in his favor. On the contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.
Page 260 - But now, in this Valley of Humiliation, poor Christian was hard put to it ; for he had gone but a little way before he espied a foul fiend coming over the field to meet him ; his name is Apollyon. Then did Christian begin to be afraid, and to cast in his mind whether to go back or to stand his ground.
Page 388 - This is a world of compensation and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Page 126 - An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high ; But oh ! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye ! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.