The Works of Charles Sumner: 1862-1863Lee and Shepard, 1874 |
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... REGARD TO FREEING SLAVES BY OUR ADVANC- ING ARMIES . Resolution in the Senate , May 26 , 1862 82 226 HELP FROM SLAVES , WITH RECIPROCAL PROTECTION IN THEIR RIGHTS AS MEN . Resolution in the Senate , May 26 , 1862 . • 83 84 TAX ON COTTON ...
... REGARD TO FREEING SLAVES BY OUR ADVANC- ING ARMIES . Resolution in the Senate , May 26 , 1862 82 226 HELP FROM SLAVES , WITH RECIPROCAL PROTECTION IN THEIR RIGHTS AS MEN . Resolution in the Senate , May 26 , 1862 . • 83 84 TAX ON COTTON ...
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... regard to the powers of Congress . In Paris , the Journal des Débats 2 referred to it as explaining the con- fiscation proposed in the United States , and quoted passages especially in reply to the Constitutionnel , which had attacked ...
... regard to the powers of Congress . In Paris , the Journal des Débats 2 referred to it as explaining the con- fiscation proposed in the United States , and quoted passages especially in reply to the Constitutionnel , which had attacked ...
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... regard to different sources of power . This I shall try to remove . There is a saying , often repeated by statesmen and often recorded by publicists , which embodies the direct object of the war we are now unhappily compelled to wage ...
... regard to different sources of power . This I shall try to remove . There is a saying , often repeated by statesmen and often recorded by publicists , which embodies the direct object of the war we are now unhappily compelled to wage ...
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... regard to the powers we are to em- ploy , or perhaps it is because they insist upon seeing the fact of Rebellion exclusively , and not the fact of War . Let them open their eyes , and they must see both . If I seem to dwell on this ...
... regard to the powers we are to em- ploy , or perhaps it is because they insist upon seeing the fact of Rebellion exclusively , and not the fact of War . Let them open their eyes , and they must see both . If I seem to dwell on this ...
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... regard to a particu- lar class . But all this is superfluous . Rebels in arms . are " enemies , " exposed to all the penalties of war , as much as if they were alien enemies . No legislation is required to make them so . They are so in ...
... regard to a particu- lar class . But all this is superfluous . Rebels in arms . are " enemies , " exposed to all the penalties of war , as much as if they were alien enemies . No legislation is required to make them so . They are so in ...
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Página 194 - ... and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons or any of them in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom...
Página 426 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Página 504 - 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 505 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Página 68 - It is agreed that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects, and also of the estates, rights and properties of persons resident in districts in the possession of His Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States.
Página 513 - the constitution and the laws of the United States, made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Página 449 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease; neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind : and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life : In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even!
Página 472 - It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war.
Página 504 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several states be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of confederation and reporting to congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the several states render the federal constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation...
Página 449 - And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even ! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.