Freedom National; Slavery SectionalTicknor, Reed and Fields, 1852 - 78 pages |
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... important committees of the Senate ; not brought forward weeks ago , when there was ample time for discus- sion , but only at this moment , without any reference to the late period of the session . The amendment , which I now offer ...
... important committees of the Senate ; not brought forward weeks ago , when there was ample time for discus- sion , but only at this moment , without any reference to the late period of the session . The amendment , which I now offer ...
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... ; which yet palpitates in every heart and burns on every tongue ; which , in its immeas- urable importance , dwarfs all other subjects ; which , by its A constant and gigantic presence , throws a shadow across these 10.
... ; which yet palpitates in every heart and burns on every tongue ; which , in its immeas- urable importance , dwarfs all other subjects ; which , by its A constant and gigantic presence , throws a shadow across these 10.
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... importance to the Preamble are the explicit contemporaneous declarations in the Convention which framed the Constitution , and elsewhere , expressed in different forms of language , but all tending to the same conclusion . By the ...
... importance to the Preamble are the explicit contemporaneous declarations in the Convention which framed the Constitution , and elsewhere , expressed in different forms of language , but all tending to the same conclusion . By the ...
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... important post of Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Confederation , he found time to organize the Abo- lition Society of New York , and to act as its President , until , by the nomination of Washington , he became Chief Justice of ...
... important post of Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Confederation , he found time to organize the Abo- lition Society of New York , and to act as its President , until , by the nomination of Washington , he became Chief Justice of ...
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... important character , came from the Abolition Society of Pennsylvania , and was signed by Benjamin Franklin , as President . This venerable man , whose active life had been devoted to the welfare of mankind at home and abroad who , both ...
... important character , came from the Abolition Society of Pennsylvania , and was signed by Benjamin Franklin , as President . This venerable man , whose active life had been devoted to the welfare of mankind at home and abroad who , both ...
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Page 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.
Page 12 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 17 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.