Review of Webster's Speech on SlaveryAmerican A.S. Society, 1850 - 44 páginas |
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Página 27 - 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.
Página 40 - South see fit to adopt any proposition to relieve themselves from the free people of color among them, or such as may be made free, they have my free consent that the Government shall pay them any sum of money out of the proceeds [of
Página 43 - affections of the people. No monarchical throne presses these States together ; no iron chain of despotic power encircles them ; they live and stand upon a Government popular in its form, representative in its character
Página 13 - no reference to the lines of latitude or points of the compass. I SHALL OPPOSE ALL SUCH EXTENSION AT ALL TIMES AND UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, EVEN AGAINST ALL INDUCEMENTS, AGAINST ALL SUPPOSED LIMITATION OF GREAT INTERESTS, AGAINST ALL COMBINATIONS, AGAINST ALL COMPROMISES.
Página 34 - All the kings of the earth lie in glory, every one in his own house ; but thou art cast out of thy grave as an
Página 44 - some proof of his 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
Página 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 whole civilized world will snuff it in the air, and it will return with awful retribution on the heads of
Página 44 - His promises were, as he then was, mighty ; But his performance, as he is now, nothing.
Página 37 - faithful agent of the people, into an unresisting and passive instrument of power. A representative body which gives up these rights and duties, gives itself up. It has broken the tie between itself and its constituents, and henceforth is fit only to be regarded as an inert, self-sacrificed mass, from which all appropriate principle of vitality has departed for ever.
Página 34 - an abominable branch,.thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people.