Freedom National; Slavery SectionalTicknor, Reed and Fields, 1852 - 78 pages |
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... surrender of fugitives from service or labor ; which said Act is hereby repealed . " On this he took the floor , and spoke as follows : MR . PRESIDENT : - Here is a provision for extraordinary expenses incurred in executing the laws of ...
... surrender of fugitives from service or labor ; which said Act is hereby repealed . " On this he took the floor , and spoke as follows : MR . PRESIDENT : - Here is a provision for extraordinary expenses incurred in executing the laws of ...
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... SURRENDER OF FUGITIVES FROM LABOR , embracing an examination of this provision in the Constitution , and especially of the recent act of Congress in pursuance thereof . And here , as I begin this discussion , let me bespeak anew your ...
... SURRENDER OF FUGITIVES FROM LABOR , embracing an examination of this provision in the Constitution , and especially of the recent act of Congress in pursuance thereof . And here , as I begin this discussion , let me bespeak anew your ...
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... surrender of fugitives from justice . But this draft , though from the flaming guardian of the slave - interest , con- tained no allusion to fugitive slaves . In the course of the Convention other plans were brought forward ; on the ...
... surrender of fugitives from justice . But this draft , though from the flaming guardian of the slave - interest , con- tained no allusion to fugitive slaves . In the course of the Convention other plans were brought forward ; on the ...
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... surrender of fugitives from justice . Mr. Butler and Mr. Charles Pinckney , both from South Carolina , now moved ... surrender of criminals was then adopted . On the next day , August 29th , profiting by the suggestions already made , Mr ...
... surrender of fugitives from justice . Mr. Butler and Mr. Charles Pinckney , both from South Carolina , now moved ... surrender of criminals was then adopted . On the next day , August 29th , profiting by the suggestions already made , Mr ...
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... surrendered under it in any Free State . It is certain that , in a case at Boston , towards the close of the last ... surrender of an alleged slave , accompanied by documentary evidence , re- fused to comply , unless the master could ...
... surrendered under it in any Free State . It is certain that , in a case at Boston , towards the close of the last ... surrender of an alleged slave , accompanied by documentary evidence , re- fused to comply , unless the master could ...
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Freedom National, Slavery Sectional: Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of ... Charles Sumner No preview available - 2018 |
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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.