The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to the Revolt of the Southern States |
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... fact , abolished in that State by the operation of its State Constitution , adopted in the year 1780 . In all of the other original thirteen provinces north of Mason and Dixon's line , except Delaware ( namely , New Hampshire ...
... fact , abolished in that State by the operation of its State Constitution , adopted in the year 1780 . In all of the other original thirteen provinces north of Mason and Dixon's line , except Delaware ( namely , New Hampshire ...
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... fact of the existence of the slaves themselves in large numbers , dependent and needing oversight , as well as bound to perform the labor required ; and , as time went by , the thought of liberating so vast a body as they had become ...
... fact of the existence of the slaves themselves in large numbers , dependent and needing oversight , as well as bound to perform the labor required ; and , as time went by , the thought of liberating so vast a body as they had become ...
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... fact- the inducement seems small to look for a happier result , by calling in a race of inferior capacities , sentiments , and possi- bilities of progress , to share in a task of such weighty duties and grave responsibilities . And if a ...
... fact- the inducement seems small to look for a happier result , by calling in a race of inferior capacities , sentiments , and possi- bilities of progress , to share in a task of such weighty duties and grave responsibilities . And if a ...
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... fact , the frame of government did all it could in providing for the return of fugitive slaves who had fled from one State into another , and refused to meddle with the rightful jurisdiction of the several States over a subject ...
... fact , the frame of government did all it could in providing for the return of fugitive slaves who had fled from one State into another , and refused to meddle with the rightful jurisdiction of the several States over a subject ...
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... fact in the habitual practice of a large portion of the inhabitants of the country . It was an imputa- tion , having its moral and political bearings , against a do- mestic institution , in which the admitted rights and the sen- timents ...
... fact in the habitual practice of a large portion of the inhabitants of the country . It was an imputa- tion , having its moral and political bearings , against a do- mestic institution , in which the admitted rights and the sen- timents ...
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Page 432 - 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 187 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 187 - Towards the preservation of your government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular opposition to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Page 187 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 354 - 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 187 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various...
Page 281 - 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 182 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
Page 449 - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired ; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 24 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.