The Enemies of the Constitution Discovered: Or, An Inquiry Into the Origin and Tendency of Popular Violence. Containing a Complete and Circumstantial Account of the Unlawful Proceedings at the City of Utica, October 21st, 1835; the Dispersion of the State Anti-Slavery Convention by the Agitators, the Destruction of a Democratic Press and of the Causes which Led Thereto; Together with a Concise Treatise on the Practice of the Court of His Honor Judge Lynch. Accompanied with Numerous Highly Interesting and Important DocumentsLeavitt, Lord, & Company, 1835 - 183 من الصفحات |
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... master mind of Milton ; but we little dreamed that new arguments in favour of freedom of speech and of the press would ever become necessary in our country . " The insertion of the following letter , taken from the same paper which ...
... master mind of Milton ; but we little dreamed that new arguments in favour of freedom of speech and of the press would ever become necessary in our country . " The insertion of the following letter , taken from the same paper which ...
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... masters of slaves , which they could have taken from the office or not as they chose . If they declined taking them , they could hurt nobody , whatever might be their character . But they advocated the immediate abolition of slavery ...
... masters of slaves , which they could have taken from the office or not as they chose . If they declined taking them , they could hurt nobody , whatever might be their character . But they advocated the immediate abolition of slavery ...
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... master , and presumes not only to command , but to deny , and imprudently invades the rights of a portion of the community . The class thus proscribed are the abolitionists , whose infatuated conduct cannot be too severely censured ...
... master , and presumes not only to command , but to deny , and imprudently invades the rights of a portion of the community . The class thus proscribed are the abolitionists , whose infatuated conduct cannot be too severely censured ...
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... master were to be consulted as well as those of the slave . And that the whole scheme of emancipation contemplated this result , that the slave should be put in possession of rights which we have declared to be inalienable from him as a ...
... master were to be consulted as well as those of the slave . And that the whole scheme of emancipation contemplated this result , that the slave should be put in possession of rights which we have declared to be inalienable from him as a ...
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... master's call , intent upon their prey , dart forth into divers streets and narrow lanes hunting for the conyention , Among this well trained pack were found , As many dogs there be , Both mongrel , puppy , whelp , and hound , And curs ...
... master's call , intent upon their prey , dart forth into divers streets and narrow lanes hunting for the conyention , Among this well trained pack were found , As many dogs there be , Both mongrel , puppy , whelp , and hound , And curs ...
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الصفحة 86 - Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government...
الصفحة 85 - To the efficacy and permanency of your union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances, in all times, have experienced.
الصفحة 74 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
الصفحة 78 - that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights — among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,' I shall strenuously contend for the immediate enfranchisement of our slave population.
الصفحة 86 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberations and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction ; to give it an artificial and extraordinary force ; to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small, but artful...
الصفحة 76 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, — a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? — that they are not to be violated but with his wrath ? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
الصفحة 75 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
الصفحة 122 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
الصفحة 14 - By no act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingly, in giving circulation to papers of this description, directly or indirectly. We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live ; and, if the former be permitted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them.
الصفحة 86 - The basis of our political Systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the People to establish Government presupposes the duty of every Individual to obey the established Government.