The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 4Lee and Shepard, 1875 |
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... BILLS . Speech in the Senate , on the Usurpation of the Senate in the Origination of Appropriation Bills , February 7 , 1856 52 58 • 60 • 61 62 83 RELIEF OF VESSELS IN DISTRESS ON THE COAST . Letter to the Director of the Exchange News ...
... BILLS . Speech in the Senate , on the Usurpation of the Senate in the Origination of Appropriation Bills , February 7 , 1856 52 58 • 60 • 61 62 83 RELIEF OF VESSELS IN DISTRESS ON THE COAST . Letter to the Director of the Exchange News ...
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... Bill must be made a dead letter , the audience seemed wild with enthusiasm . Handkerchiefs waved from fair hands , and reporters almost forgot their stolid unconcern . " Such extracts might be multiplied . Beyond these was the testimony ...
... Bill must be made a dead letter , the audience seemed wild with enthusiasm . Handkerchiefs waved from fair hands , and reporters almost forgot their stolid unconcern . " Such extracts might be multiplied . Beyond these was the testimony ...
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... Bill , or its unconstitutionality . Elsewhere I have done this , and never been answered . Nor will you expect that an en- actment so entirely devoid of all just sanction should be called by the sacred name of law . History still ...
... Bill , or its unconstitutionality . Elsewhere I have done this , and never been answered . Nor will you expect that an en- actment so entirely devoid of all just sanction should be called by the sacred name of law . History still ...
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... Bill will drop from the statute - book , Slavery will cease at the national capital , - Freedom will become the universal law of the national territory , the Slave- Trade will no longer skulk along our coast beneath the national flag ...
... Bill will drop from the statute - book , Slavery will cease at the national capital , - Freedom will become the universal law of the national territory , the Slave- Trade will no longer skulk along our coast beneath the national flag ...
Halaman 46
... Bill , while it continues unrepealed , must be made a dead letter , not by violence , not by any unconstitu- tional activity or intervention , not even by hasty con- flict between jurisdictions , but by an aroused Public Opinion , which ...
... Bill , while it continues unrepealed , must be made a dead letter , not by violence , not by any unconstitu- tional activity or intervention , not even by hasty con- flict between jurisdictions , but by an aroused Public Opinion , which ...
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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.