Proceedings and Speeches at a Public Meeting of the Friends of the Union, in the City of Baltimore, Held at the Maryland Institute, on Thursday Evening, January 10, 1861J.D. Toy, 1861 - 56 pages |
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... crimes , treason included , against the United States ; to declare war , to raise and support armies , to provide and maintain a navy , to provide for call- ing the militia to execute the laws of the Union , suppress insurrection and ...
... crimes , treason included , against the United States ; to declare war , to raise and support armies , to provide and maintain a navy , to provide for call- ing the militia to execute the laws of the Union , suppress insurrection and ...
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... crime ? Is patriotism an empty phrase ? Is treason the less treason because there is no law or tribunal competent to arrest or punish it ? Let the world judge , as it will , the teachers of such a doctrine . Do you doubt its judgment ...
... crime ? Is patriotism an empty phrase ? Is treason the less treason because there is no law or tribunal competent to arrest or punish it ? Let the world judge , as it will , the teachers of such a doctrine . Do you doubt its judgment ...
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... crime shall have been committed , " & c .; and it is said that , as in a seceding State , the Judiciary of the United States is abolished by State power , and her people are with her in feeling , or by their allegiance bound to fol- low ...
... crime shall have been committed , " & c .; and it is said that , as in a seceding State , the Judiciary of the United States is abolished by State power , and her people are with her in feeling , or by their allegiance bound to fol- low ...
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... crime , and is applicable alike to States and to the United States . Nearly all , if not all , the Constitutions of the former contain a provision that the offenders be tried only in the vicinage where the offences are charged to have ...
... crime , and is applicable alike to States and to the United States . Nearly all , if not all , the Constitutions of the former contain a provision that the offenders be tried only in the vicinage where the offences are charged to have ...
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... crime . It is the wrong , the illegality of its perpetration . The question of punishment arises after the crime is com- mitted , and exists wholly irrespective of subsequent detec- tion and punishment . If , then , secession is a crime ...
... crime . It is the wrong , the illegality of its perpetration . The question of punishment arises after the crime is com- mitted , and exists wholly irrespective of subsequent detec- tion and punishment . If , then , secession is a crime ...
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Page 7 - This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
Page 20 - Thou, too, sail on, O ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 7 - Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.
Page 40 - Union which is every day felt among us with so much joy and gratitude. What is to become of the army? What is to become of the navy? What is to become of the public lands? How is each of the thirty States to defend itself...
Page 42 - RESOLVED, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States, in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Page 20 - UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 43 - It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the state sovereignties, and had nothing more to give. But surely, the question whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country.
Page 7 - ... palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 41 - Sir, I am ashamed to pursue this line of remark. I dislike it, I have an utter disgust for it. I would rather hear of natural blasts and mildews, war, pestilence, and famine, than to hear gentlemen talk of secession.
Page 41 - In discussing this question, the counsel for the state of Maryland have deemed it of some importance, in the construction of the constitution, to consider that instrument not as emanating from the people, but as the act of sovereign and independent states.