The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to the Revolt of the Southern States |
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... formed of their results by contemporary judgments . On the other hand , not a little of the uncertainty of history is due to the want of contemporary narration . Much of the present vol- ume , however , will relate to a period some time ...
... formed of their results by contemporary judgments . On the other hand , not a little of the uncertainty of history is due to the want of contemporary narration . Much of the present vol- ume , however , will relate to a period some time ...
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... , nearly two years after the ratification of the Constitution by the number of States prescribed as requisite to the formation of the new Union . THE VIRGINIAN BILL OF RIGHTS . 15 race , if 14 ORIGIN OF THE LATE WAR .
... , nearly two years after the ratification of the Constitution by the number of States prescribed as requisite to the formation of the new Union . THE VIRGINIAN BILL OF RIGHTS . 15 race , if 14 ORIGIN OF THE LATE WAR .
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... formation of the Union in every State but one . Slavery was then universally held to be exclusively under the control of State jurisdiction . The National Leg- islature was bound to afford the citizen of the South equal protection for ...
... formation of the Union in every State but one . Slavery was then universally held to be exclusively under the control of State jurisdiction . The National Leg- islature was bound to afford the citizen of the South equal protection for ...
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... formed , was an indirect attack upon the institution in States where it al- ready existed by law , and a direct interference with popular right and liberty . The seed of discord thus flung down , and deemed for the moment worthy of no ...
... formed , was an indirect attack upon the institution in States where it al- ready existed by law , and a direct interference with popular right and liberty . The seed of discord thus flung down , and deemed for the moment worthy of no ...
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... formed at about the close of the Revolutionary War . All petitions as to this subject , for many succeeding years , seem to have sprung from Pennsylvania , instigated , it is to be presumed , by the same sect , irreverently styled by Mr ...
... formed at about the close of the Revolutionary War . All petitions as to this subject , for many succeeding years , seem to have sprung from Pennsylvania , instigated , it is to be presumed , by the same sect , irreverently styled by Mr ...
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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.