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... masters shall turn pale and tremble , when their dwellings shall smoke , and dismay sit on each countenance , then , Sir , I do not say , " We will laugh at your calamity , and mock when your fear cometh , " but I do say , when that ...
... masters shall turn pale and tremble , when their dwellings shall smoke , and dismay sit on each countenance , then , Sir , I do not say , " We will laugh at your calamity , and mock when your fear cometh , " but I do say , when that ...
Page 190
... master nor set on a slave . ' After this speech was delivered the Hon . Henry Wilson , the present senator for Massachusetts , being called for , rose and said : This is not the time nor the place for me to utter a word . You have ...
... master nor set on a slave . ' After this speech was delivered the Hon . Henry Wilson , the present senator for Massachusetts , being called for , rose and said : This is not the time nor the place for me to utter a word . You have ...
Page 191
... can give these sentiments is , that slavery everywhere must fall , and our only condition is to be when the sun shall not rise upon of repose 6 a master , nor set upon a slave . " " 192 CHAP . VI . THE REAL POINTS OF THE WILSON . 191.
... can give these sentiments is , that slavery everywhere must fall , and our only condition is to be when the sun shall not rise upon of repose 6 a master , nor set upon a slave . " " 192 CHAP . VI . THE REAL POINTS OF THE WILSON . 191.
Page 198
... master ; in being vendible by one master to another master ; and in being subject at all times to be restrained in his liberty and chastised in his body by the capricious will of his owner , the slave may appear to be de- graded from ...
... master ; in being vendible by one master to another master ; and in being subject at all times to be restrained in his liberty and chastised in his body by the capricious will of his owner , the slave may appear to be de- graded from ...
Page 199
... master of his labour and his liberty ; and in being punishable himself for all violence committed against others ; the slave is no less evidently regarded by the law as a member of the society , not as a part of the irrational crea ...
... master of his labour and his liberty ; and in being punishable himself for all violence committed against others ; the slave is no less evidently regarded by the law as a member of the society , not as a part of the irrational crea ...
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Page 13 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
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Page 235 - 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 229 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
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Page 232 - The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress protect slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. If the minority will not acquiesce the majority must, or the Government must cease.
Page 104 - And be it further enacted, that in all that territory ceded by France to the United States under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited.
Page 234 - ... if the policy of the Government upon vital questions • affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 228 - It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and...
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