Speeches of the Hon. Henry May, of Maryland: Delivered in the House of Representatives, at the Third Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress ...Kelly, Hedian & Piet, 1863 - 45 páginas |
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... force and arms can neither preserve nor rightfully be permitted to violate its Constitution under any authority whatsoever ; and whereas Washington and other great sages and patriots , who founded our General Government , solemnly ...
... force and arms can neither preserve nor rightfully be permitted to violate its Constitution under any authority whatsoever ; and whereas Washington and other great sages and patriots , who founded our General Government , solemnly ...
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... force and arms can neither preserve nor rightfully be permitted to violate its Constitution under any authority whatsoever ; and whereas Washington and other great sages and patriots , who founded our General Government , solemnly ...
... force and arms can neither preserve nor rightfully be permitted to violate its Constitution under any authority whatsoever ; and whereas Washington and other great sages and patriots , who founded our General Government , solemnly ...
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... forces and resources in favor of the Federal Government , are we nearer the end of the conflict than when we began . Does the present prospect of military affairs give encouragement of a speedy or even successful termination of the ...
... forces and resources in favor of the Federal Government , are we nearer the end of the conflict than when we began . Does the present prospect of military affairs give encouragement of a speedy or even successful termination of the ...
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... force ; and when I hear the advocates of the latter appealing to " the nation " and " its unity , " I recognize at once the insidious arguments for a centralized power to be erected upon the ruins of the Republic . And , the views that ...
... force ; and when I hear the advocates of the latter appealing to " the nation " and " its unity , " I recognize at once the insidious arguments for a centralized power to be erected upon the ruins of the Republic . And , the views that ...
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... force bill of 1833 , to justify it . But , the provisions of this amendment go infinitely beyond the principle asserted by that law . The force bill adopted in General Jackson's day , proposed simply a transfer of jurisdiction from the ...
... force bill of 1833 , to justify it . But , the provisions of this amendment go infinitely beyond the principle asserted by that law . The force bill adopted in General Jackson's day , proposed simply a transfer of jurisdiction from the ...
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Página 7 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Página 12 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Página 6 - I cannot alter the nature of man. The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly, and with a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to liberty, than those to the northward. Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days were the Poles ; and such will be all masters of slaves, who are not slaves themselves. In such a people the I775O CONCILIATION WITH THE COLONIES. 29! haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit...
Página 7 - Go, wiser thou! and, in thy scale of sense, Weigh thy opinion against providence; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such, Say, here He gives too little, there too much...
Página 7 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Página 11 - ... was called the senatus consultum ultima necessitatis: in like manner this experiment ought only to be tried in cases of extreme emergency; and in these the nation parts with its liberty for a while, in order to preserve it for ever.
Página 11 - But the happiness of our constitution is, that it is not left to the executive power to determine when the danger of the state is so great as to render this measure expedient ; for it is the parliament only, or legislative power, that, whenever it sees proper, can authorize the crown, by suspending the habeas corpus act for a short and limited time, to imprison suspected persons without giving any reason for so doing...
Página 22 - The right of the people to bo secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Página 6 - Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Freedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there, that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and general as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks, amongst them, like something that is more noble and liberal.
Página 11 - To bereave a man of life," says he, "or by violence to confiscate his estate without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism as must at once convey the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole...