The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to the Revolt of the Southern StatesAppleton, 1867 - 498 էջ |
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... negro was , at the beginning , more or less con- spicuously concerned in the question , and on considerations ... negro - slavery in its own special relations , and the future which apparently awaits the negro race itself in this country ...
... negro was , at the beginning , more or less con- spicuously concerned in the question , and on considerations ... negro - slavery in its own special relations , and the future which apparently awaits the negro race itself in this country ...
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... negro equality and negro suffrage should follow , even upon the present deplorable condition of the colored population - the question may thence arise , whether the premises themselves were well laid down which could lead to ...
... negro equality and negro suffrage should follow , even upon the present deplorable condition of the colored population - the question may thence arise , whether the premises themselves were well laid down which could lead to ...
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... negro slavery in the country , and in its defence , the proposition in question amounts to a distinc- tion without a difference . Slavery , in the popular sense , was the cause , just as property is the cause of robbery . ' Right- ' In ...
... negro slavery in the country , and in its defence , the proposition in question amounts to a distinc- tion without a difference . Slavery , in the popular sense , was the cause , just as property is the cause of robbery . ' Right- ' In ...
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... negro in that State has been a member of its Legislature , ' has served upon the jury , or in the militia , or has been appoint- ed to any office beyond one of a menial grade . Hence , his social relations may be readily inferred . To ...
... negro in that State has been a member of its Legislature , ' has served upon the jury , or in the militia , or has been appoint- ed to any office beyond one of a menial grade . Hence , his social relations may be readily inferred . To ...
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... negro slaves into those colonies . But their remonstrances were unheeded by the mother country . At the period of the war of the Revolution , slavery existed , nominally , in every one of the American colonies . So lately as 1759 , the ...
... negro slaves into those colonies . But their remonstrances were unheeded by the mother country . At the period of the war of the Revolution , slavery existed , nominally , in every one of the American colonies . So lately as 1759 , the ...
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The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to ... George Lunt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1866 |
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Էջ 432 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Էջ 187 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Էջ 187 - Towards the preservation of your government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular opposition to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Էջ 187 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Էջ 354 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Էջ 187 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various...
Էջ 281 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Էջ 182 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
Էջ 449 - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several States unimpaired ; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Էջ 24 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.