The Life of Charles Sumner: With Choice Specimens of His Eloquence, a Delineation of His Oratorical Character and His Great Speech on KansasDayton and Burdick, 1856 - 329 páginas |
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Página 167
... proceedings I now arraign de- rive their fearful consequence only from this con- nection . In now opening this great matter , I am not in- sensible to the austere demands of the occasion ; but the dependence of the crime against Kansas ...
... proceedings I now arraign de- rive their fearful consequence only from this con- nection . In now opening this great matter , I am not in- sensible to the austere demands of the occasion ; but the dependence of the crime against Kansas ...
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... proceeding further , to justify the interven- tion of Congress , most promptly and completely , to throw over this oppressed people the impenetra- ble shield of the constitution and laws . But the half is not yet told . As every point ...
... proceeding further , to justify the interven- tion of Congress , most promptly and completely , to throw over this oppressed people the impenetra- ble shield of the constitution and laws . But the half is not yet told . As every point ...
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... proceeding to the honest exercise of the electoral franchise , they might have gone with nothing more than a pilgrim's staff . Phi- losophy always seeks a sufficient cause , and only in the One Idea , already presented , can a cause be ...
... proceeding to the honest exercise of the electoral franchise , they might have gone with nothing more than a pilgrim's staff . Phi- losophy always seeks a sufficient cause , and only in the One Idea , already presented , can a cause be ...
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... proceeding is placed under the formal sanction of law . Accord- ing to this assumption , complaint is now in vain , and it only remains that Congress should sit and hearken to it , without correcting the wrong , as the ancient tyrant ...
... proceeding is placed under the formal sanction of law . Accord- ing to this assumption , complaint is now in vain , and it only remains that Congress should sit and hearken to it , without correcting the wrong , as the ancient tyrant ...
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... proceeding . In denying these principles , you place the certifi- cate above the thing certified , and give a per- petual lease to violence and fraud , merely because at an ephemeral moment they were unquestioned . This will not do ...
... proceeding . In denying these principles , you place the certifi- cate above the thing certified , and give a per- petual lease to violence and fraud , merely because at an ephemeral moment they were unquestioned . This will not do ...
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