Logic of History: Five Hundred Political Texts: Being Concentrated Extracts of Abolitionism; Also, Results of Slavery Agitation and Emancipation; Together with Sundry Chapters on Despotism, Usurpations and Frauds |
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... Abolition- ism , believing that the latter combines the trinity of the former . I have no apology to offer for the rebellion , and am in favor of pun- ishing all traitors - am opposed to any peace purchased at the expense of the honor ...
... Abolition- ism , believing that the latter combines the trinity of the former . I have no apology to offer for the rebellion , and am in favor of pun- ishing all traitors - am opposed to any peace purchased at the expense of the honor ...
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... Abolition of the Slave Trade ... English Philanthropists Define their Position against immediate Emancipation ... Abolition of Slavery in the British West Indies : Effects of such Emancipation ... Testimony of Anti - Slavery men ... De ...
... Abolition of the Slave Trade ... English Philanthropists Define their Position against immediate Emancipation ... Abolition of Slavery in the British West Indies : Effects of such Emancipation ... Testimony of Anti - Slavery men ... De ...
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... Abolition War ? ... Testimony of Gov. Stone , of Iowa ... Statement of M. B. Lowry ... Phillips on Secession ... " Chicago Tri- bune and the Tax Bill ... Extracts from a Massachusetts Pamphlet ... Abuse of the Framers of the ...
... Abolition War ? ... Testimony of Gov. Stone , of Iowa ... Statement of M. B. Lowry ... Phillips on Secession ... " Chicago Tri- bune and the Tax Bill ... Extracts from a Massachusetts Pamphlet ... Abuse of the Framers of the ...
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... Abolition Conspiracy in the New York Riots : Important Testimony ... The Union Not Worth Preserving ... Tricks of the Ohio Abolition . ists ... The Revolutionary Spirit at Work ... " New York Tribune " advocating Mobs and Riots against ...
... Abolition Conspiracy in the New York Riots : Important Testimony ... The Union Not Worth Preserving ... Tricks of the Ohio Abolition . ists ... The Revolutionary Spirit at Work ... " New York Tribune " advocating Mobs and Riots against ...
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... Abolition States ... Massachusetts Stealing Negrocs ... The Virginia and New Jersey Plan of Govern- ment ... Predictions of Geo . Mason ... The Missouri Com- promise ... General Propositions ... Jackson and Clay on Compromise ...
... Abolition States ... Massachusetts Stealing Negrocs ... The Virginia and New Jersey Plan of Govern- ment ... Predictions of Geo . Mason ... The Missouri Com- promise ... General Propositions ... Jackson and Clay on Compromise ...
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Page 240 - ... freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defence of a free State; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.
Page 82 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 157 - And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken ? when a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Page 239 - By assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with and suspending of Laws, and the Execution of Laws, without consent of Parliament.
Page 122 - Confederation, but according to some equitable ratio of representation, namely, in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons, not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes, in each State.
Page 46 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
Page 165 - ... days of which passed under an explicit notice that it was coming, unless averted by those in revolt, returning to their allegiance. The war has certainly progressed as favorably for us, since the issue of the proclamation as before.
Page 199 - Nor am I able to appreciate the danger apprehended by the meeting, that the American people will by means of military arrests during the rebellion lose the right of public discussion, the liberty of speech and the press, the law of evidence, trial by jury, and habeas corpus...
Page 269 - ... 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 146 - ... of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and all laws made in pursuance thereof and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.