Daniel Webster as a Jurist: An Address to the Students in the Law School of the University at CambridgeBartlett, 1853 - 71 páginas |
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Página 19 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
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Página 16 - I must go into the presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the slaveholding states ; and also with a determination equally decided to resist the slightest interference with it in the states where it exists.
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Página 26 - If the application be made upon affidavits on the part of the defendant, but not otherwise, the plaintiff may oppose the same .by affidavits or other evidence, in addition to those on which the injunction was granted.