Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... course , treason . No lawyer could give any other answer . John Fries , he would tell them , had learned that some years ago . How , then , they would ask , do you propose to defend us ? We are not afraid of bullets ; but treason has a ...
... course , treason . No lawyer could give any other answer . John Fries , he would tell them , had learned that some years ago . How , then , they would ask , do you propose to defend us ? We are not afraid of bullets ; but treason has a ...
Page 65
... course and operation . If , sir , the people , in these respects , had done otherwise than they have done , their Constitution could neither have been pre- served , nor would it have been worth preserving . And , if its plain provisions ...
... course and operation . If , sir , the people , in these respects , had done otherwise than they have done , their Constitution could neither have been pre- served , nor would it have been worth preserving . And , if its plain provisions ...
Page 66
... course would , in the first instance , ad- mit the exercise of an unconstitutional authority , which the States are not bound to submit to , even for a day , and because it would be absurd to suppose that any redress could ever be ...
... course would , in the first instance , ad- mit the exercise of an unconstitutional authority , which the States are not bound to submit to , even for a day , and because it would be absurd to suppose that any redress could ever be ...
Page 70
... course , that , the right of a State being established , the Federal Government is bound to acquiesce in a solemn decision of a State , acting in its sovereign capacity , at least so far as to make an appeal to the people for an amend ...
... course , that , the right of a State being established , the Federal Government is bound to acquiesce in a solemn decision of a State , acting in its sovereign capacity , at least so far as to make an appeal to the people for an amend ...
Page 81
... course of conduct in direct violation of their duty as citizens of the United States , contrary to the laws of their coun- try , subversive of its constitution , and having for its object the destruction of the Union - that Union which ...
... course of conduct in direct violation of their duty as citizens of the United States , contrary to the laws of their coun- try , subversive of its constitution , and having for its object the destruction of the Union - that Union which ...
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