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... express . There was no part of his knowledge that was not an element of his practical power . He had not been made by any artificial process ; he had he had grown . Holding within himself the germ of a great life , he had reached out ...
... express . There was no part of his knowledge that was not an element of his practical power . He had not been made by any artificial process ; he had he had grown . Holding within himself the germ of a great life , he had reached out ...
Page 121
... express affirmation , and a real though it may be only a tacit recognition of property in a slave . Slavery was to him legally right and morally wrong . " His vote is recorded against the pretence that slaves were property under the ...
... express affirmation , and a real though it may be only a tacit recognition of property in a slave . Slavery was to him legally right and morally wrong . " His vote is recorded against the pretence that slaves were property under the ...
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... express aston- ishment or condemnation ? Poor Reeder has been the only man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended , and he has been bravely undeceived . " That Kansas will form a slave ...
... express aston- ishment or condemnation ? Poor Reeder has been the only man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended , and he has been bravely undeceived . " That Kansas will form a slave ...
Page 147
... express your preference that Kansas shall be free , you would vote for no man for Congress who would say the same thing publicly . No such man could be elected , from any district , or any slave state . You think Stringfellow & Co ...
... express your preference that Kansas shall be free , you would vote for no man for Congress who would say the same thing publicly . No such man could be elected , from any district , or any slave state . You think Stringfellow & Co ...
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... express his astonishment that any different view had ever been entertained ! " At length a squabble springs up between the president and the au- thor of the Nebraska bill , on the mere question of fact , whether the Lecompton ...
... express his astonishment that any different view had ever been entertained ! " At length a squabble springs up between the president and the au- thor of the Nebraska bill , on the mere question of fact , whether the Lecompton ...
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Page 279 - Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 282 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 504 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 315 - Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government ; and so to resist force employed for its destruction, by force for its preservation.
Page 503 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
Page 504 - 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 315 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 283 - I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government...
Page 279 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 165 - We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance...