Speech of Hon. C.L. Vallandigham, of Ohio: Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 20, 1861H. Polkinhorn, 1861 - 23 páginas |
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... legislation of the day . Here , when combined with interest , and where the action of the Government may be made a source of wealth , then honor , virtue , patriotism , religion , all perish before it . No restraints and no compacts can ...
... legislation of the day . Here , when combined with interest , and where the action of the Government may be made a source of wealth , then honor , virtue , patriotism , religion , all perish before it . No restraints and no compacts can ...
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... legislative department inight encroach upon the executive , they gave to the President the self - protecting power of a qualified veto , and in turn made the President impeachable by the two Houses of Congress . Satisfied that the ...
... legislative department inight encroach upon the executive , they gave to the President the self - protecting power of a qualified veto , and in turn made the President impeachable by the two Houses of Congress . Satisfied that the ...
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... legislation . Here , in this venerable forum , where States at home and States and empires from abroad , and the Federal Government itself , are accus- tomed to contend for the judgment of the court , whatever there yet remains of an ...
... legislation . Here , in this venerable forum , where States at home and States and empires from abroad , and the Federal Government itself , are accus- tomed to contend for the judgment of the court , whatever there yet remains of an ...
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... legislative and executive magis- tracy ; and the whole , if indeed ever laid out at all , might have become a great national park . But behold the strange perversity of man ! The city has all gone to the westward . The rear of the ...
... legislative and executive magis- tracy ; and the whole , if indeed ever laid out at all , might have become a great national park . But behold the strange perversity of man ! The city has all gone to the westward . The rear of the ...
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... legislative , executive , or judicial position in the Federal Govern- ment . And all this mischief - for mischief certainly I ... legislation , new constitutions every ten years , and whatever else may be classed under the head of reform ...
... legislative , executive , or judicial position in the Federal Govern- ment . And all this mischief - for mischief certainly I ... legislation , new constitutions every ten years , and whatever else may be classed under the head of reform ...
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Página 11 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
Página 11 - I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire selfgovernment and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.
Página 14 - ... does : by it the hand of man is raised against his neighbour, against his brother, and against his father; the servant betrays his master, and the whole scene ends in confusion and devastation.