Causes of the Civil War in AmericaG. Manwaring, 1861 - 30 Seiten |
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... effort to relieve the people of the country from this state of national degradation and ruin came from Virginia . The general convention afterwards met at Philadelphia in May , 1787. The plan was submitted to a convention of delegates ...
... effort to relieve the people of the country from this state of national degradation and ruin came from Virginia . The general convention afterwards met at Philadelphia in May , 1787. The plan was submitted to a convention of delegates ...
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... effort to avert such a result . In the words of the " forest - born Demosthenes " -as Lord Byron called the great Virginian , Patrick Henry - the Americans " petitioned , remonstrated , cast themselves at the foot of the Throne , and ...
... effort to avert such a result . In the words of the " forest - born Demosthenes " -as Lord Byron called the great Virginian , Patrick Henry - the Americans " petitioned , remonstrated , cast themselves at the foot of the Throne , and ...
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... effort to save itself from a chaos like that from which the Constitution of 1787 rescued the country ? Who that has read and pondered the history of that dark period does not shudder at the prospect of its return ? But yesterday , we ...
... effort to save itself from a chaos like that from which the Constitution of 1787 rescued the country ? Who that has read and pondered the history of that dark period does not shudder at the prospect of its return ? But yesterday , we ...
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American anarchy armed armies and navies BERKELEY blessings of liberty body politic British Empire chaos civil war commerce and amity Commonwealth compact Congress Consti Constitution and laws Constitution of 1787 corner-stone COX AND WYMAN Cuba Daniel Webster debts declare dismemberment DUTCH REPUBLIC enact England Englishmen established authority executive expressly flag Free grievances Gulf Gulf of Mexico Hamilton independent individuals injury Kent KOFOID language league Legislature letters of marque liberty for ourselves Lincoln Montgomery Constitution mother country National Convention national Government nullification organic partnership peaceably secede perpetual petty sovereignties plunged posterity President progress never surpassed question rebellion and revolution rebels redress reignty Republican party resume right of revolution sagacious statesmen says Justice Story Scotland Secession ordinances secure the blessings SENT ON ILL Slave slavery South sove stitution supreme law surpassed in history tariff of 1857 territory tion treaty of peace tution Union United violated voted Washington whole land word sovereign
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Seite 15 - The government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land, ' ' anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Seite 26 - ... some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence ; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.
Seite 23 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Seite 10 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Seite 26 - Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, callico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Seite 26 - It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are dead and those who are to be born.
Seite 14 - But, as a practical right, existing under the constitution, and in conformity with its provisions, it seems to me to be nothing but a plain absurdity : for it supposes resistance to Government, under the authority of Government itself; it supposes dismemberment, without violating the principles of union ; it supposes opposition to law, without crime ; it supposes the violation of oaths, without responsibility; it supposes the total overthrow of Government, without revolution.
Seite 7 - To begin with nullification, with the avowed intent, nevertheless, not to proceed to secession, dismemberment, and general revolution, is as if one were to take the plunge of Niagara, and cry out that he would stop half-way down.
Seite 8 - But there were patriotic and sagacious men in those days, and their efforts at last rescued us from the condition of a confederacy. The " Constitution of the United States " was an organic law, enacted by the sovereign people of that whole territory which is commonly called in geographies and histories the United States of America. It was empowered to act directly, by its own legislative, judicial, and executive machinery, upon every individual in the country. It could seize his property, it could...
Seite 14 - It is also called a rule, to distinguish it from a compact or agreement; for a compact is a promise proceeding from us, law is a command directed to us. The language of a compact is, " I will, or will not, do this;" that of a law is, " thou shalt, or shalt not, do it.