Union and Anti-slavery SpeechesApplegate & Company, 1864 - 431 páginas Contains his Reply to the Missouri republican. |
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... ment are concerned , I am , in life or in death , for the UNION . A third generation has almost passed away , since on this day eighty - five years ago , the American people proclaimed themselves to be , as they had already in fact long ...
... ment are concerned , I am , in life or in death , for the UNION . A third generation has almost passed away , since on this day eighty - five years ago , the American people proclaimed themselves to be , as they had already in fact long ...
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... ment to be the best the world ever saw , and their Union the most sacred object of their attachment as Americans , millions of them are now engaged in a fierce and desperate effort to destroy both , even though in doing so they destroy ...
... ment to be the best the world ever saw , and their Union the most sacred object of their attachment as Americans , millions of them are now engaged in a fierce and desperate effort to destroy both , even though in doing so they destroy ...
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... ment , than the claim of State Sovereignty , as advanced in the States which have ordained secession from the Union ; and yet upon that claim is based the unprece- dented rebellion that convulses this land this day . Viewed in any light ...
... ment , than the claim of State Sovereignty , as advanced in the States which have ordained secession from the Union ; and yet upon that claim is based the unprece- dented rebellion that convulses this land this day . Viewed in any light ...
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... ment ? " Could he not trust them with the whole truth ? If not , why keep back any ? Such is not the act of a man conscious of rectitude and a righteous cause . No : he knew that the constitutional amendment to which he referred ...
... ment ? " Could he not trust them with the whole truth ? If not , why keep back any ? Such is not the act of a man conscious of rectitude and a righteous cause . No : he knew that the constitutional amendment to which he referred ...
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... ment instead of a rickety and powerless league , their Constitution , after enumerating certain defined powers of Congress , added , that that body should have power " to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying ...
... ment instead of a rickety and powerless league , their Constitution , after enumerating certain defined powers of Congress , added , that that body should have power " to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying ...
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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...