Das Staatsarchiv, Volume 1Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.h., 1861 |
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Page 77
... made to Switzerland in the previous month of February . | Your Excellency and the Federal Council are well aware of the correctness of what I have stated above and thinking it highly desiderable that the Federal Assembly and the people ...
... made to Switzerland in the previous month of February . | Your Excellency and the Federal Council are well aware of the correctness of what I have stated above and thinking it highly desiderable that the Federal Assembly and the people ...
Page 106
... made this , and many , and had never recanted them . And more than this , platform for my acceptance , and as a law to themselves ar and emphatic resolution which I now read : " Re- maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States ...
... made this , and many , and had never recanted them . And more than this , platform for my acceptance , and as a law to themselves ar and emphatic resolution which I now read : " Re- maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States ...
Page 107
... made it , for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves ; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law . All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution - to this provision as much as any other . To the ...
... made it , for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves ; and the intention of the lawgiver is the law . All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution - to this provision as much as any other . To the ...
Page 110
... made in ordinary parties in personal actions , the people will have ceased -ulers , having , to that extent , practically resigned their the hands of that eminent tribunal . | Nor is there in this upon the court or the judges . It is a ...
... made in ordinary parties in personal actions , the people will have ceased -ulers , having , to that extent , practically resigned their the hands of that eminent tribunal . | Nor is there in this upon the court or the judges . It is a ...
Page 111
... made express and irrevocable . The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people , and they have conferred none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States . The people themselves can do this also , if they ...
... made express and irrevocable . The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people , and they have conferred none upon him to fix terms for the separation of the States . The people themselves can do this also , if they ...
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Page 106 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 112 - I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 36 - L'intervention des autorités locales aura seulement lieu dans les deux Pays pour maintenir l'ordre , garantir les intérêts des sauveteurs, s'ils sont étrangers aux équipages naufragés, et assurer l'exécution des dispositions à observer pour l'entrée et la sortie des marchandises sauvées.
Page 108 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 110 - I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the Government...
Page 140 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 112 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it...
Page 111 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 112 - Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are...
Page 111 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.