The Works of Charles Sumner: 1862-1863Lee and Shepard, 1874 |
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... TION BY MEDIATION AND ALSO BY RECOGNITION , IMPOSSIBIL- ITY OF ANY RECOGNITION OF A NEW POWER WITH SLAVERY AS A CORNER - STONE , AND WRONGFUL CONCESSION OF OCEAN BELLIGERENCE . Speech before the Citizens of New York , at the Cooper ...
... TION BY MEDIATION AND ALSO BY RECOGNITION , IMPOSSIBIL- ITY OF ANY RECOGNITION OF A NEW POWER WITH SLAVERY AS A CORNER - STONE , AND WRONGFUL CONCESSION OF OCEAN BELLIGERENCE . Speech before the Citizens of New York , at the Cooper ...
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... tion which he had expressed on other occasions . " Your course during the present session has not only delighted your friends , but I think has given great satisfaction to the mass of your con- stituents , as well as to all throughout ...
... tion which he had expressed on other occasions . " Your course during the present session has not only delighted your friends , but I think has given great satisfaction to the mass of your con- stituents , as well as to all throughout ...
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... tion is transcendent ; nor is it easy to pass upon it without the various lights of jurisprudence , of history , and of policy . Sometimes it is called a constitutional question ex- clusively . This is a mistake . In every Government ...
... tion is transcendent ; nor is it easy to pass upon it without the various lights of jurisprudence , of history , and of policy . Sometimes it is called a constitutional question ex- clusively . This is a mistake . In every Government ...
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... tion , have vanished ; and in their place appear pre- tended Governments , which , adopting the further pre- tension of a Confederacy , have proceeded to issue letters of marque and to levy war against the United States . So far has ...
... tion , have vanished ; and in their place appear pre- tended Governments , which , adopting the further pre- tension of a Confederacy , have proceeded to issue letters of marque and to levy war against the United States . So far has ...
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... tion misplaced , and that , instead of being after " corrup- tion of blood , " it should be after " forfeiture , " separating it from the words " except during the life of the person attainted , " and making them refer to the time when ...
... tion misplaced , and that , instead of being after " corrup- tion of blood , " it should be after " forfeiture , " separating it from the words " except during the life of the person attainted , " and making them refer to the time when ...
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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.