...sophisms, and false reasonings," he writes, " is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. . . . The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged...with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." It would...

...head of that man from the North who rises here to defend slavery on principle." — JOHN RANDOLPH. "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged...with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." — ALEXANDER...

...upon faith in human nature. " The sacred rights of mankind," fervently exclaimed Alexander Hamilton, " are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of Divinity itself." That was the sublime faith in which this century began. The world...

...my honorable friend the chairman of the committee will remember, to the Tory farmer of Westchester: "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or dusty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of...

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...forth in a strain of bold and thrilling eloquence : — "The sacred rights of mankind," he declared, "are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." He insisted on...

...charters. It was retorted that New York had no charter. " The sacred rights of mankind," he rejoined, " are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself ; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. Civil liberty...

...bold and thrilling eloquence. He said, in part : " The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rumaged for among old parchments or musty records ; they are...with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." Hamilton insisted...

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...which they disdained to argue but declared to be self-evident; truths, said Alexander Hamilton, that are "written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature and not to be erased or obscured by mortal power." That assertion of liberty as a natural right was no...