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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... oppression . For this purpose treaties are entered into , and the law of nations acknowledged between foreign States . Con- stitutions and municipal laws and compacts are ordained , or enacted , or concluded , to secure the same great ...
... oppression . For this purpose treaties are entered into , and the law of nations acknowledged between foreign States . Con- stitutions and municipal laws and compacts are ordained , or enacted , or concluded , to secure the same great ...
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... oppression of individuals . I think , sir , that the debates in the Federal convention and in the conventions of the several States called to ratify the Constitution , as well as the cotemporaneous letters and publica- tions of the time ...
... oppression of individuals . I think , sir , that the debates in the Federal convention and in the conventions of the several States called to ratify the Constitution , as well as the cotemporaneous letters and publica- tions of the time ...
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... oppressive as the South feel their exclusion from the common territories of the States to be , they know well , also , that the propelling power of a great moral and religious principle , as it is regarded in the North , added to the ...
... oppressive as the South feel their exclusion from the common territories of the States to be , they know well , also , that the propelling power of a great moral and religious principle , as it is regarded in the North , added to the ...
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... oppressed minorities ; and , for the most part , with so few of the excesses and irregularities which have characterized the progress of other revolutions . I would not prohibit totally the right of secession , lest violent revolutions ...
... oppressed minorities ; and , for the most part , with so few of the excesses and irregularities which have characterized the progress of other revolutions . I would not prohibit totally the right of secession , lest violent revolutions ...
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... oppress minorities , to arrest and hold in check which tendency compacts and constitutions are made ; and whereas the only effectual constitutional security for the rights of minorittes , whether as people or as States , is the power ...
... oppress minorities , to arrest and hold in check which tendency compacts and constitutions are made ; and whereas the only effectual constitutional security for the rights of minorittes , whether as people or as States , is the power ...
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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.