The Works of Charles Sumner, Volumen3Lee and Shepard, 1871 |
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... CITIZEN . Letter to the Nor- folk Agricultural Society , September 25 , 1854 Letter to a Com- THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT TO BE DISOBEYED . mittee at Syracuse , New York , September 28 , 1854 POSITION AND DUTIES OF THE MERCHANT , ILLUSTRATED ...
... CITIZEN . Letter to the Nor- folk Agricultural Society , September 25 , 1854 Letter to a Com- THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT TO BE DISOBEYED . mittee at Syracuse , New York , September 28 , 1854 POSITION AND DUTIES OF THE MERCHANT , ILLUSTRATED ...
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... citizen . As such , it offers him welcome to the capital and to the country . - The Comity of Nations I respect . To the behests of the Law of Nations I profoundly bow . In our domestic affairs all acts are brought to the Constitution ...
... citizen . As such , it offers him welcome to the capital and to the country . - The Comity of Nations I respect . To the behests of the Law of Nations I profoundly bow . In our domestic affairs all acts are brought to the Constitution ...
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... citizens all violence is forbidden by the Mu- nicipal Law , which is enforced by no private arm , but by the sheriff , in the name of the Government , and under the sanctions of the magistrate . So , among the Nations , all violence ...
... citizens all violence is forbidden by the Mu- nicipal Law , which is enforced by no private arm , but by the sheriff , in the name of the Government , and under the sanctions of the magistrate . So , among the Nations , all violence ...
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... citizen could behave without the imputation of meanness . Thus strongly may I put the case , without fear of contradiction . The influence of roads and canals in enhancing the value of the public domain through which they pass is well ...
... citizen could behave without the imputation of meanness . Thus strongly may I put the case , without fear of contradiction . The influence of roads and canals in enhancing the value of the public domain through which they pass is well ...
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... citizen can- not be debarred of his right of appeal to executive clem- ency . " ( Routt v . Feemster , 7 J. J. Marshall , 132. ) According to these authorities , it seems reasonable to infer , that , under the Constitution of the United ...
... citizen can- not be debarred of his right of appeal to executive clem- ency . " ( Routt v . Feemster , 7 J. J. Marshall , 132. ) According to these authorities , it seems reasonable to infer , that , under the Constitution of the United ...
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Página 367 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 281 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited...
Página 155 - 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 14 - The legislatures of those districts or new states shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Página 434 - It is a power that places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer.
Página 332 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am armed so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 23 - States, that every and each tract of land sold by the United States, from and after the first day of...
Página 102 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 288 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise 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...
Página 151 - 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.