Freedom National; Slavery SectionalTicknor, Reed and Fields, 1852 - 78 Seiten |
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... Congress respecting fugitive slaves ; first and princi- pally , because of its injustice towards a long sorely - oppressed and deeply- injured people ; and , secondly , in order that we , together with other conscien- tious sufferers ...
... Congress respecting fugitive slaves ; first and princi- pally , because of its injustice towards a long sorely - oppressed and deeply- injured people ; and , secondly , in order that we , together with other conscien- tious sufferers ...
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... Congress , approved September 18 , 1850 , usually known as the Fugitive Slave Act . In pursuance of this notice , on the next day , during the morning hour , an attempt was made by Mr. SUMNER to call it up . Mr. SUMNER . Mr. President ...
... Congress , approved September 18 , 1850 , usually known as the Fugitive Slave Act . In pursuance of this notice , on the next day , during the morning hour , an attempt was made by Mr. SUMNER to call it up . Mr. SUMNER . Mr. President ...
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... Congress for the recovery of fugitive slaves . Full well I know , sir , the difficulties of this discussion , arising from prejudices of opinion and from ad- verse conclusions , strong and sincere as my own . Full well I know that I am ...
... Congress for the recovery of fugitive slaves . Full well I know , sir , the difficulties of this discussion , arising from prejudices of opinion and from ad- verse conclusions , strong and sincere as my own . Full well I know that I am ...
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... Congress , is , by mere legislation , to fasten a new provision on the Con- stitution . Nay , more ; it gives to the law a character which the very Constitution does not possess . The wise fathers did not treat the country as a Chinese ...
... Congress , is , by mere legislation , to fasten a new provision on the Con- stitution . Nay , more ; it gives to the law a character which the very Constitution does not possess . The wise fathers did not treat the country as a Chinese ...
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... Congress necessarily involves the right to discuss them . To separate these is impossible . Like the twenty - fifth rule of the House of Representatives against petitions on Slavery now repealed and dishonored - the Compromise , as ...
... Congress necessarily involves the right to discuss them . To separate these is impossible . Like the twenty - fifth rule of the House of Representatives against petitions on Slavery now repealed and dishonored - the Compromise , as ...
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Abolitionist according adopted ALPHEUS FELCH amendment Articles of Confederation authority Boston British character Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Charles Pinckney claim common law compromise Congress Consti Constitution Continental Congress convictions debate declared denial of Trial discussion duty England execution express expressly Fathers Fugitive Slave Bill fugitives from labor grant of power Granville Sharpe Habeas Corpus important infraction of rights institution John Rutledge judgment language legislation Legislature lord Massachusetts master memorial National Convention National Government national jurisdiction Nativo Habendo nature openly Parliament Personal Liberty Pinckney political President principles proceedings proposition provision public records question regard repeal Resolution Samuel Adams sanction secondly sectional secured seize Senate service or labor sheriff Slave Act slaveholding soul South Carolina speak spirit Stamp Act stitution suit at common SUMNER Supreme Court surrender of fugitives thereof tion tional Trial by Jury true tution unconstitutional United villain Virginia Washington words writ
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Seite 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.
Seite 12 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 17 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.