..."ALEXANDER HAMILTON" AND "DANIEL WEBSTER " (iN "AMERICAN STATESMEN " SERIES), AND " STUDIES IN HISTORY" ** The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged...sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the band of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." [HAMILTON— The...

...charters. It was retorted that New York had no charter. . " The sacred rights of mankind," he rejoined, " are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. Civil liberty cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifold violation of justice and...

...Hamilton, one of the founders of the Republic, said, are not to he rummaged for among parchments. ' They are written as with a ' sunbeam in the whole...can never be erased or obscured by ' mortal power.' The time has at length arrived when this slavery system and policy must be checked with a view to final...

...WEBSTER** (1N "AMERICAN STATESMEN " SERIES), AND "STUDIES IN HISTORY" "The &acred right* of mank1nd are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, 1n the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or...

...honorable friend the Chairman of the Committee will remember, to the Tory farmer of Westchester : " The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or dusty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of...

...stand on any mere human authority, however high, the framer of the American constitution proceeded : " The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged...with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." How justly Knox conceived the true character...

...sophisms, and false reasonings," he writes, " is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. . . . The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged...can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." It would be interesting to know what he thought of this rhetorical sophism, if he ever read it over...

...head of that man from the North who rises here to defend slavery on principle." — JOHN RANDOLPH. "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged...in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." — ALEXANDER HAMILTON. " Little...

...upon faith in human nature. " The sacred rights of mankind," fervently exclaimed Alexander Hamilton, " are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of Divinity itself." That was the sublime faith in which this century began. The world stared and sneered...

...my honorable friend the chairman of the committee will remember, to the Tory farmer of Westchester: "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or dusty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of...