Review of Webster's Speech on SlaveryAmerican A.S. Society, 1850 - 44 Seiten Published by the American Anti Slavery Society in Boston, Massachusetts. Printed by J.B. Yerrinton and Son, Printers, Boston. |
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Review of Webster's Speech on Slavery (Classic Reprint) Wendell Phillips Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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21 CORNHILL abolitionists acquiescence acquired from Mexico assent bargain Boston claim colored COMPRO compromise confession conscience Constitution contract cotton crime Cuba Daniel Webster Despotism disburdened Disunionists extension of slavery fact of Texan Faneuil Hall form and substance friends fugitive slaves future give HARVARD COLLEGE honor jury trial land latitude Legislature liberty Louisiana Louisiana Territory Marshfield Mason's bill Massachusetts members of Congress Mexico and California N. Y. Evening Post nation negro never Northern Northern court ordinance of 1787 ordinance of Nature pains to re-affirm physical geography plain violation pledged political prohibition race rebuke refused resist Resolutions sagacity Senate sentiment Slave Power slave question South Southern court Springfield stand statesman stitutional Strafford Suppose surrender tell territories acquired Texan annexation Texas Address thing thousand tion treaty trial by jury tution unconstitutional validity WEBSTER'S SPEECH WENDELL PHILLIPS Whig votes whole Wilmot Proviso
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Seite 27 - Union itself is too full of benefit to be hazarded in propositions for changing its original basis. I go for the constitution as it is, and for the Union as it is. But I am resolved not to submit, in silence, to accusations, either against myself individually, or against the north, wholly unfounded and unjust — accusations which impute to us a disposition to evade the constitutional compact, and to extend the power of the government over the internal laws and domestic condition of the states.
Seite 40 - If the residue should be sold at the same rate, the whole aggregate will exceed two hundred millions of dollars. If Virginia and the South see fit to adopt any proposition to relieve themselves from the free people of color among them...
Seite 34 - But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
Seite 33 - The spirit of liberty is, indeed, a bold and fearless spirit ; but it is also a sharp-sighted spirit ; it is a cautious, sagacious, discriminating, far-seeing intelligence ; it is jealous of encroachment, jealous of power, jealous of man. It demands checks ; it seeks for guards ; it insists on securities ; it entrenches itself behind strong defences, and fortifies itself with all possible care against the assaults of ambition and passion.
Seite 33 - It demands checks; it seeks for guards; it insists on securities; it entrenches itself behind strong defences, and fortifies itself with all possible care against the assaults of ambition and passion. It does not trust the amiable weaknesses of human nature, and therefore it will not permit power to overstep its prescribed limits, though benevolence, good intent and patriotic purpose come along with it.
Seite 43 - ... under it. Let us make our generation one of the strongest and brightest links in that golden chain, which is destined, I- fondly believe, to grapple the people of all the States to this constitution for ages to come. We have a great, popular, constitutional government, guarded by law and by judicature, and defended by the whole affections of the people.
Seite 25 - possesses the constitutional power, upon the admission of any new State created beyond the limits of the original territory of the United States, to make the prohibition of the further extension of slavery or involuntary servitude in such new State a condition of its admission.
Seite 29 - Gentlemen, if the blood of Kossuth is taken by an absolute, unqualified, unjustifiable violation of national law, what will it appease — what will it pacify ? It will mingle with the earth — it will mix with the waters of the ocean — the wholo civilized world will snuff it. in the air, and it will return with awful retribution on the heads of those violators of national law and universal justice.
Seite 37 - We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. Is he to be blind, though visible danger approaches ? Is he to be deaf, though sounds of peril fill the air ? Is he to be dumb, while a thousand duties impel him to raise the cry of alarm ? Is he not, rather, to catch the lowest whisper which breathes intention or purpose of encroachment on the public liberties, and to give his voice breath and utterance at the first appearance of danger ? Is...
Seite 44 - Pilgrims, till it lose itself in the murmurs of the Pacific seas. We would leave for the consideration of those who shall then occupy our places, some proof that we hold the blessings transmitted from our fathers in just estimation ; some proof of our attachment to the cause of good government, and of civil and religious liberty ; some proof of a sincere and ardent desire to promote every thing which may enlarge the understandings and improve the hearts of men.