Why I Am a Republican: A History of the Republican Party, a Defense of Its Policy, and the Reasons which Justify Its Continuance in Power, with Biographical Sketches of the Republican CandidatesW. J. Betts & Company, 1884 - 195 páginas |
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... protect the system of Slavery , became the efficient if not the sole cause of its destruction . By the Constitution the foreign slave trade was tolerated for twenty years , and thus the slave population was greatly augmented , the sys ...
... protect the system of Slavery , became the efficient if not the sole cause of its destruction . By the Constitution the foreign slave trade was tolerated for twenty years , and thus the slave population was greatly augmented , the sys ...
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... protected by moral , theological , and financial defenses and defenders . Law , wealth , and theology had combined for its protection . In 1794 Congress passed penal statutes against the exportation of slaves from the United States ...
... protected by moral , theological , and financial defenses and defenders . Law , wealth , and theology had combined for its protection . In 1794 Congress passed penal statutes against the exportation of slaves from the United States ...
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... protection to slavery , non - interference by the National Government , the supremacy of the laws of nature over the question of slavery extension , and finally it subordinated its love for the Union , and yielded itself absolutely to ...
... protection to slavery , non - interference by the National Government , the supremacy of the laws of nature over the question of slavery extension , and finally it subordinated its love for the Union , and yielded itself absolutely to ...
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... protection and free trade . These declarations seem ridiculously weak and unaggressive , when measured and judged by the great movements and policies which the Republican party has originated , defended , and carried forward to final ...
... protection and free trade . These declarations seem ridiculously weak and unaggressive , when measured and judged by the great movements and policies which the Republican party has originated , defended , and carried forward to final ...
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... protection to domestic labor . Into those two policies are woven the interest of every cap- italist , and the means of support of every workman in the North , and those policies can never be secure until the equality of men is ...
... protection to domestic labor . Into those two policies are woven the interest of every cap- italist , and the means of support of every workman in the North , and those policies can never be secure until the equality of men is ...
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Página 137 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his...
Página 136 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Página 127 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that 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.
Página 115 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Página 125 - 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.
Página 136 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Página 114 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 134 - ... 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 sixty-three...
Página 128 - 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.
Página 123 - Again, in any law upon this subject, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and humane jurisprudence to be introduced, so that a free man be not, in any case, surrendered as a slave? And might it not be well at the same time to provide by law for the enforcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that "the citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States"?