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Page 71
... present , this 18th day of December , A. D. , 1787. " There was therefore no hasty action , but calmn deliberation on the part of this State in ratifying the Constitution . This deliberation was to be expected of a State that led ...
... present , this 18th day of December , A. D. , 1787. " There was therefore no hasty action , but calmn deliberation on the part of this State in ratifying the Constitution . This deliberation was to be expected of a State that led ...
Page 77
... presents , assent to and ratify the said Constitution . " We have given a synopsis of the procedings of the thirteen States on entering into the new compact between the States . It will be seen that in each case State sovereignty was ...
... presents , assent to and ratify the said Constitution . " We have given a synopsis of the procedings of the thirteen States on entering into the new compact between the States . It will be seen that in each case State sovereignty was ...
Page 79
... present can possibly admit ...... " We feel ourselves attached by the strongest ties of friend- ship , and interest , to our sister States ; and we can not , without the greatest reluctance , look to any other quarter for those ad ...
... present can possibly admit ...... " We feel ourselves attached by the strongest ties of friend- ship , and interest , to our sister States ; and we can not , without the greatest reluctance , look to any other quarter for those ad ...
Page 131
... present com- plaint against us the territories are scarcely mentioned . " Anoth er touch of strategy is this . He knows the Southern people have never demanded more than the Common Constitution grant- ed them . To have " the territories ...
... present com- plaint against us the territories are scarcely mentioned . " Anoth er touch of strategy is this . He knows the Southern people have never demanded more than the Common Constitution grant- ed them . To have " the territories ...
Page 132
... present complaints against us the territories are scarcely mentioned ? " Does he not know that nothing so agitates the country at this very time as does the question of the territories ? Does not the Dred Scott de- cision hinge on it ...
... present complaints against us the territories are scarcely mentioned ? " Does he not know that nothing so agitates the country at this very time as does the question of the territories ? Does not the Dred Scott de- cision hinge on it ...
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Page 74 - Do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Page 409 - I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be ' the Union as it was.' If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 315 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 205 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Page 309 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 439 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 358 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 471 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 410 - 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 55 - 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.