The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 3Lee and Shepard, 1875 |
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... openly on the side of Freedom . Among citizens all violence is forbidden by the Mu- nicipal Law , which is enforced by no private arm , but by the sheriff , in the name of the Government , and under the sanctions of the magistrate . So ...
... openly on the side of Freedom . Among citizens all violence is forbidden by the Mu- nicipal Law , which is enforced by no private arm , but by the sheriff , in the name of the Government , and under the sanctions of the magistrate . So ...
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... openly asserted that he should not present them during the pending session . Such was the pro - slav- ery tyranny which prevailed . He was thus driven to watch for an opportunity , when , according to the rules of the Senate , he might ...
... openly asserted that he should not present them during the pending session . Such was the pro - slav- ery tyranny which prevailed . He was thus driven to watch for an opportunity , when , according to the rules of the Senate , he might ...
Page 78
... openly as a soldier for life . As such , he did not hesitate to encounter opposition , to bear obloquy , and to brave enmity . His conscience , pure as goodness , sus- tained him in every trial , even that sharpest of all , the ...
... openly as a soldier for life . As such , he did not hesitate to encounter opposition , to bear obloquy , and to brave enmity . His conscience , pure as goodness , sus- tained him in every trial , even that sharpest of all , the ...
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... openly against the usurpation , injus- tice , and cruelty of the late intolerable enactment for the recovery of fugitive slaves . Full well I know , Sir , the difficulties of this discussion , arising from prejudi- ces of opinion and ...
... openly against the usurpation , injus- tice , and cruelty of the late intolerable enactment for the recovery of fugitive slaves . Full well I know , Sir , the difficulties of this discussion , arising from prejudi- ces of opinion and ...
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... openly and from the strength of my convic- tions . I may speak warmly , for I shall speak from the heart . But in no event can I forget the amenities which belong to debate , and which especially become this body . Slavery I must ...
... openly and from the strength of my convic- tions . I may speak warmly , for I shall speak from the heart . But in no event can I forget the amenities which belong to debate , and which especially become this body . Slavery I must ...
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Page 365 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 279 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited...
Page 12 - The legislatures of those districts or new states shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Page 185 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 373 - 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 145 - 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 149 - 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 521 - ... and every stipulation by which any seaman consents to abandon his right to wages in the case of the loss of the ship, or to abandon any right which he may have or obtain in the nature of salvage, shall be wholly inoperative.
Page 259 - Parliament, do pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true, ancient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom...
Page 286 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise 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...