The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 4Lee and Shepard, 1875 |
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... already put aside the multitudinous illustrations from the cruelty of Slavery . On the simple letter of the law I take my stand , and do not go beyond what is there nominated . The masses of men are not better than their laws , and ...
... already put aside the multitudinous illustrations from the cruelty of Slavery . On the simple letter of the law I take my stand , and do not go beyond what is there nominated . The masses of men are not better than their laws , and ...
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... already demonstrated its practicability ; for the former includes the latter , as the greater includes the less . Whatever is necessary must be practicable . By a decree which is a proverb of tyr- anny , the Israelites were compelled to ...
... already demonstrated its practicability ; for the former includes the latter , as the greater includes the less . Whatever is necessary must be practicable . By a decree which is a proverb of tyr- anny , the Israelites were compelled to ...
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... Already even its zealots admit that its " abuses " should be removed . This is their word , not mine . Alas ! alas ! Sir , it is these very " abuses " that constitute its component parts , without which it would not exist , - even as ...
... Already even its zealots admit that its " abuses " should be removed . This is their word , not mine . Alas ! alas ! Sir , it is these very " abuses " that constitute its component parts , without which it would not exist , - even as ...
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... already accomplished incalcula- ble good . Even now it sweeps the national heart , com- pelling it to emotions of transforming power . All are touched , the young , the middle - aged , the old . There is a new glow at the household ...
... already accomplished incalcula- ble good . Even now it sweeps the national heart , com- pelling it to emotions of transforming power . All are touched , the young , the middle - aged , the old . There is a new glow at the household ...
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Charles Sumner. ― Already are signs of change . In common speech , as well as in writing , among slave - masters , the bondman is no longer called slave , but servant , — thus , by soft sub- stitution , concealing and condemning the true ...
Charles Sumner. ― Already are signs of change . In common speech , as well as in writing , among slave - masters , the bondman is no longer called slave , but servant , — thus , by soft sub- stitution , concealing and condemning the true ...
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Halaman 253 - The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has over the judges, and on that point the President is independent of both. The authority of the Supreme Court must not, therefore, be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.
Halaman 157 - 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...
Halaman 183 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting...
Halaman 243 - For Humanity sweeps onward: where to-day the martyr stands, { On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.
Halaman 65 - For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
Halaman 22 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord ? 17 If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
Halaman 90 - ... ought to begin with the commons : and that it is the undoubted and sole right of the commons to direct, limit, and appoint in such bills the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations, and qualifications of such grants ; which ought not to be changed or altered by the House of Lords.
Halaman 17 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Halaman 191 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Halaman 104 - That the United States are of right freed and exonerated from the stipulations of the treaties and of the consular convention heretofore concluded between the United States and France, and that the same shall not henceforth be regarded as legally obligatory on the Government or citizens of the United States.