The Citadel of Freedom: A Brief Study of the Constitution and Its Builders, and of the Movement to Destroy itTimes-Mirror Press, 1923 - 152 Seiten |
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... slave labor . The North was commercial , and while slavery then existed in most of the northern states , it was not regarded as essential or even highly desirable there . The South wished to protect its property in slaves , and the ...
... slave labor . The North was commercial , and while slavery then existed in most of the northern states , it was not regarded as essential or even highly desirable there . The South wished to protect its property in slaves , and the ...
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... Slave - holders against those op- posed to slavery ; small states against large ; agriculturalists against commercialists ; and nationalists against those who wished to keep the state governments paramount . The first three difficulties ...
... Slave - holders against those op- posed to slavery ; small states against large ; agriculturalists against commercialists ; and nationalists against those who wished to keep the state governments paramount . The first three difficulties ...
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... slaves should not be permitted . At the same time Congress was empowered to pass a tariff act , but not to tax exports . All three of these difficulties , while ex- tremely serious , did not bring the principle of representative ...
... slaves should not be permitted . At the same time Congress was empowered to pass a tariff act , but not to tax exports . All three of these difficulties , while ex- tremely serious , did not bring the principle of representative ...
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... slave - owner , had seen the dignity of the individual . Lincoln was the spiritual and intellectual heir to them both . At the time when men were almost de- humanizing the Constitution by carrying in- terpretations of it to ridiculous ...
... slave - owner , had seen the dignity of the individual . Lincoln was the spiritual and intellectual heir to them both . At the time when men were almost de- humanizing the Constitution by carrying in- terpretations of it to ridiculous ...
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... it was also that , amid all the tumult of a struggle between abolitionists and slave- holders , he never lost sight of the cardinal im- portance of preserving our constitutional sys- tem of government . 120 THE CITADEL OF FREEDOM.
... it was also that , amid all the tumult of a struggle between abolitionists and slave- holders , he never lost sight of the cardinal im- portance of preserving our constitutional sys- tem of government . 120 THE CITADEL OF FREEDOM.
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 113 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Seite 113 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Seite 112 - While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that I seek not to penetrate the veil. God grant that in my day at least, that curtain may not rise!
Seite 139 - It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work ? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair : the event is in the hand of God.
Seite 57 - One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system; and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments, as of other human institutions...
Seite 89 - Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of Government, have erroneously supposed, that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
Seite 54 - I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States as an Independent Power: First.
Seite 98 - The government of the Union, then, (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case,) is, emphatically and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
Seite 69 - The efficacy of various principles is now well understood, which were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients. The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election: these are wholly new discoveries, or have made their principal progress towards...
Seite 113 - ... drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced,* its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?