 | Russell Lowell Riley, Russell Lynn Riley - 1999 - 404 páginas
...you to forward or deliver the papers of which you speak — By no act or direction of mine, off1cial or private, could I be induced to aid knowingly in...a higher one to the communities in which we live; if the former be perverted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them.9 The policy thus... | |
 | Peter Moore, Tyler - 1999 - 638 páginas
...Asserting that the post office department was created to serve the people and not to injure them, he said: By no act or direction of mine, official or private,...of this description directly or indirectly. We owe our obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the community in which we live; and if the former be... | |
 | Chunchang Gao - 2000 - 340 páginas
...it embodied the truth of God. As one white declared. "We owe an obligation to the laws. but we owe a higher one to the communities in which we live....if the former be perverted to destroy the latter. il is patriotism to disregard them."871 In the period of Reconstruction. conservatives felt that the... | |
 | Michael Kent Curtis - 2000 - 544 páginas
...they were "incendiary, and insurrectionary in the highest degree." He would not order their delivery. "We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live." In this situation, he said, it was "patriotism to disregard [the laws]."3 Meanwhile, the postmaster... | |
 | Kathleen D. McCarthy - 2005 - 332 páginas
..."I cannot sanction, and will not condemn, the steps you have taken," he wrote to Postmaster Huger. "We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live." Not everyone agreed. Years later, John Quincy Adams continued to deride Kendall's actions as "a violation... | |
 | Donald B. Cole - 2004 - 368 páginas
...states, and not "to be used as the instrument of their destruction." He told Huger that they "owe[d] an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live." Kendall concluded that he would neither "sanction" nor "condemn" Huger's action, but made it clear... | |
 | Daniel Walker Howe - 2007 - 926 páginas
...deferring to the censorship laws of their states. As he put it in a letter to the Charleston postmaster, "We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live." What Calhoun and Van Buren would have required, Kendall and his successors managed to permit. And as... | |
 | David Grimsted - 1998 - 393 páginas
...tacit blessing to action against abolition literature by invoking a higher law of social preservation: "We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the community in which we live and, if the former be perverted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism... | |
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By no act, or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingly, in giving circulation to papers of this description, directly or indirectly. We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we... 
