The Republican Scrap Book: Containing the Platformsand a Choice Selection of Extracts, Setting Forth the Real Questions in Issue, Opinions of the Candidates, the Nature and Designs of the Slave Oligarchy, as Shown by Their Own Writers, and the Opinions of Clay, Webster, Josiah Quincy and Other Patriots, on Slavery and Its Extension ...

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J. P. Jewett & Company, 1856 - 80 páginas

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Página 70 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?
Página 16 - That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Federal Constitution...
Página 54 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Página 17 - ... the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures has been violated; they have been deprived of life, liberty, and property without due process of law...
Página 73 - keeping the word of promise to the ear, and breaking it to the hope...
Página 54 - With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous peal ; yet, when they list, would creep, If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb, And kennel there, yet there still barked and howled Within unseen.
Página 17 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished Slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...
Página 17 - National territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, it becomes our duty to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it for the purpose of establishing slavery in the United States by positive legislation prohibiting its existence or extension therein; that we deny the authority of Congress, of a Territorial legislature, of any individual or association of individuals, to give legal existence to...
Página 17 - ... and contains ample provisions for the protection of the life, liberty, and property of every citizen ; the dearest Constitutional rights of the people of Kansas, have been fraudulently and violently taken from them — their territory has been invaded by an armed force — spurious and pretended legislative, judicial, and executive officers have been set over them, by whose usurped authority, sustained by the military power of the...
Página 70 - And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other.

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