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... ment of the laws " as their platform , one upon which they could easily have rallied all the people of all sections of the coun- try , but for the fact which they seemed to overlook , that the widest possible differences of opinion ...
... ment of the laws " as their platform , one upon which they could easily have rallied all the people of all sections of the coun- try , but for the fact which they seemed to overlook , that the widest possible differences of opinion ...
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... ment of the United States is supreme : and it soon became evident that the President adopted this theory as the basis and guide of his Executive action . South Carolina took the lead in the secession movement . Her legislature assembled ...
... ment of the United States is supreme : and it soon became evident that the President adopted this theory as the basis and guide of his Executive action . South Carolina took the lead in the secession movement . Her legislature assembled ...
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... ment of the United States than anywhere else on the face of the earth . " I look upon this country , with our institutions , " said Mr. Stephens before the Legislature of Georgia , on the 14th of November , 1860 , after the result of ...
... ment of the United States than anywhere else on the face of the earth . " I look upon this country , with our institutions , " said Mr. Stephens before the Legislature of Georgia , on the 14th of November , 1860 , after the result of ...
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... ment the election of no man , constitutionally chosen to that high office , is sufficient cause for any State to separate from the Union . It ought to stand by and aid still in maintaining the Constitution of the country . To make a ...
... ment the election of no man , constitutionally chosen to that high office , is sufficient cause for any State to separate from the Union . It ought to stand by and aid still in maintaining the Constitution of the country . To make a ...
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... ment , by duties upon imports , sound policy requires such an adjust- ment of these imports as will encourage the development of the indus- trial interest of the whole country ; and we commend that policy of na- tional exchanges which ...
... ment , by duties upon imports , sound policy requires such an adjust- ment of these imports as will encourage the development of the indus- trial interest of the whole country ; and we commend that policy of na- tional exchanges which ...
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Page 463 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 219 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and...
Page 219 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon* military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 215 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 318 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always ; and when after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions, as to terms of intercourse, are again upon you.
Page 317 - Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great...
Page 113 - 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 149 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men...
Page 189 - Resolved, That the United States ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State, in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Page 114 - A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.