American oratorsMayo Williamson Hazeltine P.F. Collier, 1903 |
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... true a State to the Union as yet exists in the whole confederacy - unless something be done ; but that you will have disunion , that anarchy and war will follow it , that all this will take place in six months , I believe as confidently ...
... true a State to the Union as yet exists in the whole confederacy - unless something be done ; but that you will have disunion , that anarchy and war will follow it , that all this will take place in six months , I believe as confidently ...
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... question the true principle that no more revenue ought to be collected from the people than the amount necessary to defray the expense of a wise , econom- k ical , and efficient administration of the government . To 20 BUCHANAN.
... question the true principle that no more revenue ought to be collected from the people than the amount necessary to defray the expense of a wise , econom- k ical , and efficient administration of the government . To 20 BUCHANAN.
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... true , as well as the only safe , theory of the Constitution . Whenever in our past history doubtful powers have been exercised by Congress , these have never failed to produce injurious and unhappy consequences . Many such instances ...
... true , as well as the only safe , theory of the Constitution . Whenever in our past history doubtful powers have been exercised by Congress , these have never failed to produce injurious and unhappy consequences . Many such instances ...
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... true religion , even although you sell your goods , and bestow your money on the poor , and go and follow your Master . There may be , and every hour shows around me , fanatics in the cause of false liberty -that infamous liberty which ...
... true religion , even although you sell your goods , and bestow your money on the poor , and go and follow your Master . There may be , and every hour shows around me , fanatics in the cause of false liberty -that infamous liberty which ...
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... now in force . Mr. Stevens - Then I am glad that the agitation has pro- duced some amelioration of your laws , although I still find it on your statute book . But suppose it were true that the masters had become 28 STEVENS.
... now in force . Mr. Stevens - Then I am glad that the agitation has pro- duced some amelioration of your laws , although I still find it on your statute book . But suppose it were true that the masters had become 28 STEVENS.
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Page 145 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said that "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 136 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion — no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 144 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 143 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
Page 144 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God ; and each invokes his aid against the other.
Page 16 - 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 own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 141 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have the old Constitution unimpaired...
Page 141 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 132 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 127 - ... bring such piece in ; in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin, and Roger and James all understood one another from the beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first blow was struck.