The Works of Charles Sumner, Volumen11Lee and Shepard, 1877 |
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... less " ; but all this was of no avail . How often during the war have I pleaded for such patriots , and urged to every effort for their redemption ! — and now , when our arms have prevailed , it is they who are cast down , while the ...
... less " ; but all this was of no avail . How often during the war have I pleaded for such patriots , and urged to every effort for their redemption ! — and now , when our arms have prevailed , it is they who are cast down , while the ...
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... less at home than abroad . Fellow - citizens , allow me to gather the whole case into brief compass . The President , wielding the One . Man Power , has assumed a prerogative over Congress utterly unjustifiable , while he has dictated a ...
... less at home than abroad . Fellow - citizens , allow me to gather the whole case into brief compass . The President , wielding the One . Man Power , has assumed a prerogative over Congress utterly unjustifiable , while he has dictated a ...
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... less than a revolution . But you will succeed . The revolution must prevail . What are called civil rights have been accorded already ; but every argument for these is equally important for po- litical rights , which cannot be denied ...
... less than a revolution . But you will succeed . The revolution must prevail . What are called civil rights have been accorded already ; but every argument for these is equally important for po- litical rights , which cannot be denied ...
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... Chamber , and in the Chamber at the other end of the Capitol . Our strife is civic , but it should be none the less strenuous . FEMALE SUFFRAGE , AND AN EDUCATIONAL TEST OF MALE SUFFRAGE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF RECONSTRUCTION . 47.
... Chamber , and in the Chamber at the other end of the Capitol . Our strife is civic , but it should be none the less strenuous . FEMALE SUFFRAGE , AND AN EDUCATIONAL TEST OF MALE SUFFRAGE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF RECONSTRUCTION . 47.
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... less than a gen- eral abdication . Such , I say emphatically , is the duty of the hour , in presence of which it is vain for the Senator to cite the experience of other times , when no such duty was urgent . He does not meet the case ...
... less than a gen- eral abdication . Such , I say emphatically , is the duty of the hour , in presence of which it is vain for the Senator to cite the experience of other times , when no such duty was urgent . He does not meet the case ...
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Página 289 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Página 37 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
Página 153 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 76 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Página 140 - If a majority of the votes given on that question shall be for a convention, then such convention shall be held as hereinafter provided; but if a majority of said votes shall be against a...
Página 67 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Página 9 - Unquestionably? a military government, established as the permanent government of the State, would not be a republican government, and it would be the duty of congress to overthrow it.
Página 81 - Books, maps, and charts, specially imported, not more than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith for the use of any society incorporated or established for philosophical, literary, or religious purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use, or by the order, of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States.
Página 73 - Well, let me say to you, if you will stand by me in this action, if you will stand by me in trying to give the people a fair chance — soldiers and citizens — to participate in these offices, God being willing, I will kick them out. I will kick them out just as fast as I can. Let me say to you, in concluding, that what I have said I intended to say.
Página 402 - That all the provisions of this act and of the acts to which this is supplementary shall be construed liberally, to the end that all the intents thereof may be fully and perfectly carried out.