Freedom National; Slavery SectionalTicknor, Reed and Fields, 1852 - 78 páginas |
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... America . " Thus , ac- cording to undeniable words , the Constitution was ordained , not to establish , secure , or sanction Slavery - not to promote the special interests of slaveholders- not to make Slavery national , in any way ...
... America . " Thus , ac- cording to undeniable words , the Constitution was ordained , not to establish , secure , or sanction Slavery - not to promote the special interests of slaveholders- not to make Slavery national , in any way ...
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... America , that the rights for which she has contended were the rights of human nature . By the blessing of the Author of these rights , they have prevailed over all opposition , and FORM THE BASIS of thirteen independent States . " Such ...
... America , that the rights for which she has contended were the rights of human nature . By the blessing of the Author of these rights , they have prevailed over all opposition , and FORM THE BASIS of thirteen independent States . " Such ...
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... America comes into this measure , prayers to heaven will be impious . " her But they were not alone . The convictions and earnest aspirations of the country were with them . At the North these were broad and general . At the South they ...
... America comes into this measure , prayers to heaven will be impious . " her But they were not alone . The convictions and earnest aspirations of the country were with them . At the North these were broad and general . At the South they ...
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... America . " The Congregation- alists of New - England , also of the faith of John Calvin , and with the hatred of Slavery belonging to the great non- conformist , Richard Baxter , were sternly united against this wrong . As early as ...
... America . " The Congregation- alists of New - England , also of the faith of John Calvin , and with the hatred of Slavery belonging to the great non- conformist , Richard Baxter , were sternly united against this wrong . As early as ...
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... before the Convention what is called " A draft of a Federal Government , to be agreed upon between the free and independent States of America , " an elaborate paper , marked by considerable minuteness of detail . Here are pro- 36.
... before the Convention what is called " A draft of a Federal Government , to be agreed upon between the free and independent States of America , " an elaborate paper , marked by considerable minuteness of detail . Here are pro- 36.
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Página 43 - The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Página 12 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 47 - No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Página 3 - Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them : for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Página 50 - Resolved, that the several states composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government ; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Página 17 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Página 44 - It is as much the duty of the house of representatives, of the senate, and of the President, to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the supreme judges, when it may be brought before them for judicial decision.
Página 55 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Página 64 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 21 - Shakespeare, thy gift, I place before my sight; With awe, I ask his blessing ere I write ; With reverence look on his majestic face; Proud to be less, but of his godlike race.