Slavery: Letters and SpeechesB.B. Mussey & Company, 1851 - 564 páginas Tharp collection. |
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... extending and securing liberty to the human race . " Permit me to reäffirm these sentiments with my whole heart . Should the responsibilities of that suc- cessorship ever be devolved upon me , I shall endeavor so to fulfil them , that ...
... extending and securing liberty to the human race . " Permit me to reäffirm these sentiments with my whole heart . Should the responsibilities of that suc- cessorship ever be devolved upon me , I shall endeavor so to fulfil them , that ...
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... extending and securing liberty to the human race . " There is a crisis in our affairs . A territory , in extent far exceeding that of the thirteen original states , when they repelled the power of Great Britain , has lately been added ...
... extending and securing liberty to the human race . " There is a crisis in our affairs . A territory , in extent far exceeding that of the thirteen original states , when they repelled the power of Great Britain , has lately been added ...
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... extend- ing and securing liberty to the human race . " Of course I do not understand you to imply any violation of the constitution of the United States , which every repre- sentative swears to support . Permit me to say a word personal ...
... extend- ing and securing liberty to the human race . " Of course I do not understand you to imply any violation of the constitution of the United States , which every repre- sentative swears to support . Permit me to say a word personal ...
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... extended so far . Slavery being against natural right , can only exist by virtue of positive law , backed by force sufficient to protect it . It could not lawfully exist , therefore , in any part of Louisiana , which had not been laid ...
... extended so far . Slavery being against natural right , can only exist by virtue of positive law , backed by force sufficient to protect it . It could not lawfully exist , therefore , in any part of Louisiana , which had not been laid ...
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... the result of an experience extending over many years . In Massachusetts we have no native - born child wholly without school instruction ; but the degrees of attain- ment , of mental development , are various . Half 4 * 41.
... the result of an experience extending over many years . In Massachusetts we have no native - born child wholly without school instruction ; but the degrees of attain- ment , of mental development , are various . Half 4 * 41.
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Página 57 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 393 - And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching, throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
Página 57 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 263 - Third, new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution.
Página 157 - That, in addition to the provisions of the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States...
Página 492 - ... mentioned, shall be conclusive of the right of the person or persons in whose favor granted, to remove such fugitive to the State or Territory from which he escaped, and shall prevent all molestation of such person or persons by any process issued by any court, judge, magistrate, or other person whomsoever.
Página 197 - We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, .... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Página 115 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to Liberty, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till Nature herself shall change. No tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle...
Página 263 - States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire. And in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory, north of said Missouri compromise line, slavery or involuntary servitude, (except for crime,) shall be prohibited.
Página 290 - That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.