- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Deny
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
- Coming
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
- Deem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.
- Consideration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm that principle, but, on the contrary, altogether excludes it.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise and prudent statesmen, enlarge its boundaries and increase its influence, and thus increase already impending dangers?
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.
- Extended
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- Nov 07, 2020
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.
- Free State
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.
- Minority
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- Nov 07, 2020
To reduce this claim of slavery to an absurdity, it is only necessary to add that there are only two states in which slaves are a majority, and not one in which the slaveholders are not a very disproportionate minority.
- Higher
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- Nov 07, 2020