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... interest . gine had been invented , and spinning and weaving greatly improved . demand for cotton had arisen . It ... interests , and those interests were hourly becoming more and more antagonistic . In the competition that ensued there ...
... interest . gine had been invented , and spinning and weaving greatly improved . demand for cotton had arisen . It ... interests , and those interests were hourly becoming more and more antagonistic . In the competition that ensued there ...
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... interests , each of which must be satisfied , we can not fail to remark how transitory all constitutional forms are liable to be , except in so far as they are pervaded by that immortal principle . While we view with veneration the ...
... interests , each of which must be satisfied , we can not fail to remark how transitory all constitutional forms are liable to be , except in so far as they are pervaded by that immortal principle . While we view with veneration the ...
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... interest , but also - what we might not of North America . have supposed - of political instruction too . For the facts now to be presented , we are indebted to the various geological surveys instituted by several of the states , to the ...
... interest , but also - what we might not of North America . have supposed - of political instruction too . For the facts now to be presented , we are indebted to the various geological surveys instituted by several of the states , to the ...
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... interest to the statesman . Grandeur of this sign . emn . I am here speaking of vast lapses of time , which our finite faculties vainly try to grasp . In this persistence of de- irreversible operation of law - this continu- ous issue of ...
... interest to the statesman . Grandeur of this sign . emn . I am here speaking of vast lapses of time , which our finite faculties vainly try to grasp . In this persistence of de- irreversible operation of law - this continu- ous issue of ...
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... interest , might have been said , but what has been offered is enough . There is nothing privileged in Nature . High or low , all must submit to an impartial , an unchangeable rule . If grasses , and grains , and all vegetable ...
... interest , might have been said , but what has been offered is enough . There is nothing privileged in Nature . High or low , all must submit to an impartial , an unchangeable rule . If grasses , and grains , and all vegetable ...
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Page 503 - 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 34 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
Page 351 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 268 - We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation. Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
Page 269 - I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power, which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the State governments extends over the several States.
Page 514 - Carolina in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eightyeight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 268 - You talk, my good Sir, of employing influence to appease the present tumults in Massachusetts. I know not where that influence is to be found, or, if attainable, that it would be a proper remedy for the disorders. Influence is not government. Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured, or let us know the worst at once.
Page 277 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 189 - The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it.
Page 30 - Such a prohibition would be idle, as it respects any effect it would have upon the territory; and I would not take pains uselessly to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to re-enact the will of God.