Union and Anti-slavery SpeechesApplegate & Company, 1864 - 431 páginas Contains his Reply to the Missouri republican. |
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... CITIZENS : -Honored by your invitation to address you on this venerated and cherished anniver- sary , I was led to comply , not less by a sense of duti- ful obligation to our mother land , than by the impulse of true and reverent ...
... CITIZENS : -Honored by your invitation to address you on this venerated and cherished anniver- sary , I was led to comply , not less by a sense of duti- ful obligation to our mother land , than by the impulse of true and reverent ...
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... CITIZEN ; more than content with the glory of that title , and ambitious only that it may not , now or ever , be sullied by any act or word of mine . With profound reverence I have , from my youth , followed the teachings of the great ...
... CITIZEN ; more than content with the glory of that title , and ambitious only that it may not , now or ever , be sullied by any act or word of mine . With profound reverence I have , from my youth , followed the teachings of the great ...
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... citizens : and yet we are constrained in this day , when ungoverned malig- nity assails it on every side , and ruthless hands are raised for its destruction , to ask the strange and apparently superfluous question - What is the UNION ...
... citizens : and yet we are constrained in this day , when ungoverned malig- nity assails it on every side , and ruthless hands are raised for its destruction , to ask the strange and apparently superfluous question - What is the UNION ...
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... citizen , and only secondarily and by inferior obligation to the United States ; and that the Government of the United States is a mere agent of the States , for particular purposes , with the privilege in any State to terminate the ...
... citizen , and only secondarily and by inferior obligation to the United States ; and that the Government of the United States is a mere agent of the States , for particular purposes , with the privilege in any State to terminate the ...
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... citizen , and is condensed in the single , but most comprehen- sive , word - ALLEGIANCE . Every individual of every nation , barbarian and civilized , is bound by allegiance to the supreme au- thority which presides over that nation ...
... citizen , and is condensed in the single , but most comprehen- sive , word - ALLEGIANCE . Every individual of every nation , barbarian and civilized , is bound by allegiance to the supreme au- thority which presides over that nation ...
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Página 60 - 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...
Página 60 - ... 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, is essential to that balance of...
Página 421 - The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise — with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.
Página 59 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Página 146 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Página 311 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate 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.
Página 25 - No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation . . .," but also that "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Página 34 - It is obviously impracticable in the federal government of these states, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Página 146 - A house divided against itself can not stand.' . I believe this Government can not endure permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved ; I do not expect the house to fall ; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other...
Página 201 - ... and by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid i do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated states and parts of states are and henceforward shall be free and that the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons...