This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...of the market-place, nor the outcries of politicians, clutching at the prizes of ambition, can suppress the utterances that true men believe themselves heaven-committed to declare. "COMPROMISE MEASURES." I DRAW no augury of despair from the calamity that has befallen us. It teaches whatever there is of virtue ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...of the market-place, nor the outcries of politicians, clutching at the prizes of ambition, can suppress the utterances that true men believe themselves heaven-committed to declare. "COMPROMISE MEASURES." I DRAW no augury of despair from the calamity that has befallen us. It teaches whatever there is of virtue and of principle in manhood, the task which has been set them to do, and whose accomplishment God will requiro at their hands. A CONSCIENCE. HAT cares my conscience whether I am in a minority or a majority, if I am right f Has any great and glorious cause ever been started upon earth that did not find itself, at the outset, in a minority? PUBLIC OPINION IN 1850. SLAVE, it is said, is not one of the "people" by whom and for whom the Constitution was formed. lie is an outlaw, and an outcast.. He has no inherent or inalienable rights as a man. What he has, he has ex gratia, by the good will of those who own him body and soul, and who are graciously pleased to forego some of their legal rights from generosity in themselves, and not from justice to him. As it seems to me, a most obvious principle confutes this argument utterly. By the laws of the free states, we know no such being as a slave. Our courts, in their functions as state courts, do not understand the meaning of the word slave. To talk to them in that capacity about a slave, or slavery, is to talk to them in an unknown tongue. In the eye of the legislators of the free states, and in the eye of the courts of the free states, so far as their domestic polity is concerned, there can be no such creature as a slave. TRIAL BY JURY. IT is the most cruel of sophisms to say that because a man is claimed as a slave, he is not under the protection of the Constitution, and then...
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