Freedom National; Slavery SectionalTicknor, Reed and Fields, 1852 - 78 páginas |
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... discussion of the subject now . The contents of the memorial , simply , are to be stated , and then it becomes a question whether it is to be received , if any objection is made to its reception . Silence gives consent . After it is ...
... discussion of the subject now . The contents of the memorial , simply , are to be stated , and then it becomes a question whether it is to be received , if any objection is made to its reception . Silence gives consent . After it is ...
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... discussion of the merits of the memorial until it has been received . Mr. SUMNER . I do not propose to enter into any such discussion I have already read one part of the memorial , and it was my design merely to refer to the character ...
... discussion of the merits of the memorial until it has been received . Mr. SUMNER . I do not propose to enter into any such discussion I have already read one part of the memorial , and it was my design merely to refer to the character ...
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... discussion of the Resolution itself— the main question when it is actually before the Senate . The single ques- tion now is , not the Resolution , but whether I shall be heard upon it . ― As a Senator , under the responsibilities of my ...
... discussion of the Resolution itself— the main question when it is actually before the Senate . The single ques- tion now is , not the Resolution , but whether I shall be heard upon it . ― As a Senator , under the responsibilities of my ...
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... discussion , arising from prejudices of opinion and from ad- verse conclusions , strong and sincere as my own . Full well I know that I am in a small minority , with few here to whom I may look for sympathy or support . Full well I know ...
... discussion , arising from prejudices of opinion and from ad- verse conclusions , strong and sincere as my own . Full well I know that I am in a small minority , with few here to whom I may look for sympathy or support . Full well I know ...
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... discussion of it is closed . Both the old political parties of the country , by formal resolu- tions , have united in this declaration . On a subject which for years has agitated the public mind ; which yet palpitates in every heart and ...
... discussion of it is closed . Both the old political parties of the country , by formal resolu- tions , have united in this declaration . On a subject which for years has agitated the public mind ; which yet palpitates in every heart and ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 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.
Página 12 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 17 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.