Is Davis a Traitor: Or, Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War of 1861?author, 1866 - 263 ページ |
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... slave States ought to be fulfilled . " Here , then , are stipulations in favor of States , and made by States . " Slavery , " says he , " as it exists in the States , is beyond the reach of Congress . It is a concern of the States them ...
... slave States ought to be fulfilled . " Here , then , are stipulations in favor of States , and made by States . " Slavery , " says he , " as it exists in the States , is beyond the reach of Congress . It is a concern of the States them ...
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... slavery being regarded as an evil , as it was then , it is now regarded by the South as an insti- tution to be ... slave States , where it did not expect to find itself , when they agreed to the compact of the Constitution . " + THUS ...
... slavery being regarded as an evil , as it was then , it is now regarded by the South as an insti- tution to be ... slave States , where it did not expect to find itself , when they agreed to the compact of the Constitution . " + THUS ...
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... slaves . What shall we say then ? Was secession ;: under such circum- stances , treason ? Was it rebellion ? Mr. Webster has , in one of his speeches , laid down a principle which never has been , and never can be , controverted . He's ...
... slaves . What shall we say then ? Was secession ;: under such circum- stances , treason ? Was it rebellion ? Mr. Webster has , in one of his speeches , laid down a principle which never has been , and never can be , controverted . He's ...
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... slavery . Might not the South complain , that he had no opinions , or at least no convictions , to change ? The man who really seeks the truth , and , when found ; clings to it as the choicest treasure of his soul , may well leave his ...
... slavery . Might not the South complain , that he had no opinions , or at least no convictions , to change ? The man who really seeks the truth , and , when found ; clings to it as the choicest treasure of his soul , may well leave his ...
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... slaves against the will of the latter ; we cannot see how twenty millions of people can hold ten , or even five , in a detested Union with them by military force . * * If seven or eight con- tiguous States should present themselves ...
... slaves against the will of the latter ; we cannot see how twenty millions of people can hold ten , or even five , in a detested Union with them by military force . * * If seven or eight con- tiguous States should present themselves ...
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acceded admitted adopted Alexander Hamilton America argument Articles of Confederation assertion authority branch of Congress Calhoun chap clause colonies confederacy Consti Constitution a compact Constitutional right contrary Convention of 1787 delegated denied denounced doctrine England ernment established exercise existence expressly fact faction fathers favor Federal Government Federalist Gouverneur Morris Governor Morris Hartford Convention Hence heresy Ibid idea James Madison Jefferson John Quincy Adams Judge Story Justice Story language legislation Legislature Madison Papers majority Massachusetts ment national government never North Northern old Articles opinion oppression ordained original pact parties Patrick Henry perfectly principle question ratified reason regard Report of 1800 Republic right of secession right to secede says seen slave power slaves solemn compact South South Carolina Southern sovereign power sovereignty speech stipulations stitution Story and Webster supreme theory thing tion true truth tution United vention Virginia vote whole words
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56 ページ - In determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote. Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court, or place out of Congress ; and the members of Congress shall be protected in...
135 ページ - The people of this Common-wealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign and independent State ; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction and right, •which is not, or may not hereafter, be by them expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled.
229 ページ - Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable ; that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties ; and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice, and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
254 ページ - To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed.
165 ページ - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
201 ページ - Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
208 ページ - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
178 ページ - However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact, the doctrine itself has had respectable advocates. The possibility of a question of this nature, proves the necessity of laying the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT...
63 ページ - I always thought that, when we should acquire Canada and Louisiana it would be proper to govern them as provinces, and allow them no voice in our councils. In wording the third section of the fourth article, I went as far as circumstances would permit to establish the exclusion. Candor obliges me to add my belief, that, had it been more pointedly expressed, a strong opposition would have been made.
18 ページ - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.