The Works of Charles Sumner, Zväzok 5Lee and Shepard, 1872 |
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Strana 8
... Constitution forbidding Slavery . Time has passed , but the question remains . Resuming the discussion precisely ... constitutional liberty were perverted , all the rights of human nature violated , and the whole country held trembling ...
... Constitution forbidding Slavery . Time has passed , but the question remains . Resuming the discussion precisely ... constitutional liberty were perverted , all the rights of human nature violated , and the whole country held trembling ...
Strana 12
... Constitution the pretended property in man is placed beyond the reach of Con- gressional prohibition even within ... Constitutional Law , now vaunted without apology or hesitation . I meet them both . To 12 THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY .
... Constitution the pretended property in man is placed beyond the reach of Con- gressional prohibition even within ... Constitutional Law , now vaunted without apology or hesitation . I meet them both . To 12 THE BARBARISM OF SLAVERY .
Strana 13
... Constitution of the United States nowhere recognizes property in man . These two assumptions naturally go together . They are " twins " suckled by the same wolf . They are the " couple " in the present slave - hunt . And the latter ...
... Constitution of the United States nowhere recognizes property in man . These two assumptions naturally go together . They are " twins " suckled by the same wolf . They are the " couple " in the present slave - hunt . And the latter ...
Strana 17
... Constitutional Law . I. IN presenting the CHARACTER OF SLAVERY , there is little for me , except to make Slavery paint itself . When this is done , the picture will need no explana- tory words . - ( 1. ) I begin with the Law of Slavery ...
... Constitutional Law . I. IN presenting the CHARACTER OF SLAVERY , there is little for me , except to make Slavery paint itself . When this is done , the picture will need no explana- tory words . - ( 1. ) I begin with the Law of Slavery ...
Strana 51
... Constitution . This is his language : - " Slavery discourages arts and manufactures . The poor despise labor , when performed by slaves . They prevent the emigration of whites , who really enrich and strengthen a country . They produce ...
... Constitution . This is his language : - " Slavery discourages arts and manufactures . The poor despise labor , when performed by slaves . They prevent the emigration of whites , who really enrich and strengthen a country . They produce ...
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Strana 52 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Strana 277 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Strana 278 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the Church and Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, — "It is therefore ordered, That every township in. this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them •to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Strana 251 - We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Strana 226 - God that made the world and all things therein * * * hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Strana 266 - And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate. And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.
Strana 80 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Strana 123 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Strana 491 - Majesty shall be submitted to the arbitration and award of his Majesty the Emperor of Germany, who, having regard to the above-mentioned article of the said treaty, shall decide thereupon, finally and without appeal, which of those claims is most in accordance with the true interpretation of the treaty of June 15, 1846.
Strana 218 - Washington — first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen...