...rendered a few years before was openly assailed, and such declarations as the following were common: "There is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over the domain. Slavery must be abolished and we must do it." — WH Seward. "The Union is a lie. The American Union...

...it We hold no arbitrary authority over anything, whether acquired lawfully or seized by usurpation. The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates...

...it. We hold no arbitrary authority over anything, whether acquired lawfully or seized by usurpation. The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates...

...United States to exclude slavery from the soil of California, he proceeds to inform us that, " There ia a. higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain and devotee it to the same noble purposes."* " We deem the principle of the law for the recapture of fugitives,...

...it. We hold no arbitrary authority over anything, whether acquire! lawfully or seized by usurpation. The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution...there is a higher law than the Constitution, which resulates our authority over the domain, and;devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is...

...censure of a portion of his constituents. Let us hear the passage as it originally fell from his lips : " The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a Idyker law than the Constitution, which regnlates...

...uncertainty exists. That Constitution which was framed by the wisdom law of nature and of nations." " But there is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over the llomnin, and devotes it to the name noble purposes." — Speech of Mr. II. Neicani, US Senate, March,...

...it We hold no arbitrary authority over anything, whether acquired lawfully or seized by usurpation. The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution...there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulatei our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is...

...for New York, who, however, docs not belong to the Free-soil party, hail made this declaration : " The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution...domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, »nd to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over...

...it. We hold no arbitrary authority over anything, whether acquired lawfully or seized by usurpation. The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution...regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to tlic tame noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of...