The Bench and Bar of MississippiHale, 1881 - 539 páginas |
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... feelings of sympathy and abhorrence . He could recount the tales of sorrow and mis- fortune with a pathos that would moisten the eyes of all hearers , thrill at one moment the tenderest cords of the heart , and at the next , twang the ...
... feelings of sympathy and abhorrence . He could recount the tales of sorrow and mis- fortune with a pathos that would moisten the eyes of all hearers , thrill at one moment the tenderest cords of the heart , and at the next , twang the ...
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... feelings which , for a moment , usurp the empire of reason , and lead to excesses which sober reflection would condemn . It was not , therefore , wonderful that a man of the soundest intellect and most enlightened understanding should ...
... feelings which , for a moment , usurp the empire of reason , and lead to excesses which sober reflection would condemn . It was not , therefore , wonderful that a man of the soundest intellect and most enlightened understanding should ...
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... feelings or character , nor inconsistent with contemporaneous as- surances of my high respect and consideration ? Common - sense revolts at conclusions so ridiculous , drawn from such premises . Add to this the express charge of a ...
... feelings or character , nor inconsistent with contemporaneous as- surances of my high respect and consideration ? Common - sense revolts at conclusions so ridiculous , drawn from such premises . Add to this the express charge of a ...
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... feelings or his character would accept a public trust on such conditions . As well might we censure the Su- preme Court for having given a decision which we deemed con- trary to the Constitution , and where no corruption could be ...
... feelings or his character would accept a public trust on such conditions . As well might we censure the Su- preme Court for having given a decision which we deemed con- trary to the Constitution , and where no corruption could be ...
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... feeling is paralyzed , and all the avenues to conviction are closed by the frost of cold indifference or the fatal spell of uncon- querable prejudice . Under such discouraging circumstances I enter with diffidence on the task of ...
... feeling is paralyzed , and all the avenues to conviction are closed by the frost of cold indifference or the fatal spell of uncon- querable prejudice . Under such discouraging circumstances I enter with diffidence on the task of ...
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Página 436 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Página 242 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart...
Página 436 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. 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 until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 410 - The Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves, for their own government, and not for the government of the individual States. Each State established a constitution for itself, and in that constitution provided such limitations and restrictions on the powers of its particular government as its judgment dictated. The people of the United States...
Página 308 - Come not to me again : but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood ; Who once a day with his embossed froth The turbulent surge shall cover : thither come, And let my grave-stone be your oracle.
Página 305 - Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed here, on the elementary principles of society, has presented this question to my mind; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living : that the dead have neither...
Página 419 - The right of a citizen of one state to pass through, or to reside in any other state, for purposes of trade, agriculture, professional pursuits, or otherwise...
Página 410 - The people of the United States framed such a government for the United States as they supposed best adapted to their situation, and best calculated to promote their interests. The powers they conferred on this government were to be exercised by itself; and the limitations on power, if expressed in general terms, are naturally, and, we think, necessarily applicable to the government created by the instrument.
Página 41 - ... power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired (by a supposed influence over the people) with an intrepid confidence in its own strength; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which reason prescribes; it is against the enterprising ambition of this department that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions.
Página 231 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...