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 - Počet stran: 183 |
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... opinion . * The agitators are those who are endeavouring , by deception and fraud , to subvert the constitution , and change the settled policy of this country . These fanatics , by means of their incendiary meetings and publications ...
... opinion . * The agitators are those who are endeavouring , by deception and fraud , to subvert the constitution , and change the settled policy of this country . These fanatics , by means of their incendiary meetings and publications ...
Strana iv
... opinions and views on that subject , and the extracts from the Federal and State Conventions , showing our rights in the present alarming state of affairs , are all highly important to be read and understood by every true friend of ...
... opinions and views on that subject , and the extracts from the Federal and State Conventions , showing our rights in the present alarming state of affairs , are all highly important to be read and understood by every true friend of ...
Strana vii
... opinion is the law of the land , and that to this we are bound to yield . By this cunning device , attempts are often made to destroy rights expressly guarantied by the constitu- tion , even by the expression of public opinion in a ...
... opinion is the law of the land , and that to this we are bound to yield . By this cunning device , attempts are often made to destroy rights expressly guarantied by the constitu- tion , even by the expression of public opinion in a ...
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... opinion was unlawful , and of such dangerous tendency , as called for the loudest censure , and it is believed that such could not but have been the almost unanimous judgment of the people in the non - slaveholding states , had not the ...
... opinion was unlawful , and of such dangerous tendency , as called for the loudest censure , and it is believed that such could not but have been the almost unanimous judgment of the people in the non - slaveholding states , had not the ...
Strana 14
... opinions have extensive influence , and enjoy his notions of patriotism in a private station . A pretty thing it is , to be sure , when the head officer of the Post - office establishment of the United States , and a member ex officio ...
... opinions have extensive influence , and enjoy his notions of patriotism in a private station . A pretty thing it is , to be sure , when the head officer of the Post - office establishment of the United States , and a member ex officio ...
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A. G. Dauby abolition Abolitionism abolitionists abuse adjourn adopted agitators American Anti-Slavery Society Amos Kendall Anti-Slavery Society assembled attempt authority called chairman character church citizens of Utica committee Common Council condemned conduct constitution Convention declare delegates designs detain disgrace duty emancipation enemies Ephraim Hart excitement expressed fanatics favour fellow-citizens free discussion freedom freedom of speech friends Gerrit Smith Gouverneur Hartford Convention honour hussle incendiary indignation individuals inflammatory influence insult insurrection intended John judge Kellogg Kendall laws letter LEWIS TAPPAN liberty of speech mail carriers master meeting ment nation New-York NICHOLAS SMITH occasion officers papers patriotism peaceable citizens political Post-office present principles proceedings rabble racter republican resolution Resolved respect Samuel Beardsley sentiments slave slave-holders Smith southern subject of slavery Sumner county tendency Thomas tion union United violation violence vote Whig William witnessed
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Strana 117 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Strana 115 - 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.
Strana 104 - 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.
Strana 153 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Strana 116 - 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, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Strana 108 - 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.
Strana 90 - ... the diffusion of information, and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason : freedom of religion; freedom of the press; and freedom of person, under the protection of the habeas corpus : and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation, which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Strana 106 - 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 of 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...
Strana 152 - When the measure of their tears shall be full, when their groans shall have involved heaven itself in darkness, doubtless a god of justice will awaken to their distress, and by diffusing light and liberality among their oppressors, or at length by his exterminat-ing thunder, manifest his attention to the things of this world, and that they are not left to the guidance of a blind fatality.
Strana 116 - ... adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty.