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... representative and then upon her people . There was no extravagance of the ancient parliamentary debate which he did not repeat ; nor was there any possible deviation from truth which he did not make , with so much of passion , I am ...
... representative and then upon her people . There was no extravagance of the ancient parliamentary debate which he did not repeat ; nor was there any possible deviation from truth which he did not make , with so much of passion , I am ...
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... Representative talk to a Massachusetts Senator . His astonishment was quickly corrected . Leaning upon the desk and addressing Sumner with a rapid sentence or two , to the effect that he had read his speech , that it was a libel upon ...
... Representative talk to a Massachusetts Senator . His astonishment was quickly corrected . Leaning upon the desk and addressing Sumner with a rapid sentence or two , to the effect that he had read his speech , that it was a libel upon ...
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... Representative , came rushing down the main aisle , brandishing his cane , and with imprecations warning lookers - on to " let them alone . " Among those hastening to the rescue , Mr. Morgan arrived first , just in time to catch and ...
... Representative , came rushing down the main aisle , brandishing his cane , and with imprecations warning lookers - on to " let them alone . " Among those hastening to the rescue , Mr. Morgan arrived first , just in time to catch and ...
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... Representative ( afterwards United States Minister to China , and still later Chinese Minister to the United States ) . " I denounce it , " he said , " in the name of the Constitution it violates . I denounce it in the name of the ...
... Representative ( afterwards United States Minister to China , and still later Chinese Minister to the United States ) . " I denounce it , " he said , " in the name of the Constitution it violates . I denounce it in the name of the ...
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... Representatives of their readiness to fight , and especially by Burlingame's actual acceptance of the challenge of Brooks . " The shock of the attack , and the serious wounds received by Mr. Sumner , produced a spinal malady , from ...
... Representatives of their readiness to fight , and especially by Burlingame's actual acceptance of the challenge of Brooks . " The shock of the attack , and the serious wounds received by Mr. Sumner , produced a spinal malady , from ...
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Page 136 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 137 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 183 - 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 150 - They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings.
Page 224 - ... free states ? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored...
Page 149 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. I agree with Judge Douglas he is not my equal in many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not in moral or intellectual endowment. But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else,...
Page 89 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 138 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to, and conducted by, its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work — who do care for the result. Two years ago, the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us.
Page 40 - That we recognize the right of the people of all the Territories, including Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly expressed will of a majority of actual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States.
Page 220 - Now, and here, let me guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to discard all the lights of current experience —to reject all progress — all improvement.