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 Documents |
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... violation of the public faith most solemnly pledged for its protection , - that the Post- master at the commercial metropolis of the nation would arrogate to himself the power of a censor , and , in violation of the laws of the land ...
... violation of the public faith most solemnly pledged for its protection , - that the Post- master at the commercial metropolis of the nation would arrogate to himself the power of a censor , and , in violation of the laws of the land ...
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... violation of the laws of the United States , and of individual rights , soon after received the sanction of a large meeting of citizens , among whom was that arch nullifier , Robert Y. Hayne , who had before been engaged in an attempt ...
... violation of the laws of the United States , and of individual rights , soon after received the sanction of a large meeting of citizens , among whom was that arch nullifier , Robert Y. Hayne , who had before been engaged in an attempt ...
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... violated under any pretence , without destroying all public confidence in it . The same principle which would justify a Postmaster in searching newspapers and periodicals , and detaining them under any pretence , would jus- tify his ...
... violated under any pretence , without destroying all public confidence in it . The same principle which would justify a Postmaster in searching newspapers and periodicals , and detaining them under any pretence , would jus- tify his ...
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... violated the laws , disregarded his oath , in- vaded the freedom of speech and the press , and the rights of his fellow citizens , because he thinks himself correct and others wrong . He has appealed to the Postmaster General , and we ...
... violated the laws , disregarded his oath , in- vaded the freedom of speech and the press , and the rights of his fellow citizens , because he thinks himself correct and others wrong . He has appealed to the Postmaster General , and we ...
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... Would the Secretary of the Treasury have been justified by saying to him , in that extreme case , ' if I were situated as you are , I would do as 蜜 you have done ? If you violate the laws , 3 * CONSTITUTION DISCOVERED . 25.
... Would the Secretary of the Treasury have been justified by saying to him , in that extreme case , ' if I were situated as you are , I would do as 蜜 you have done ? If you violate the laws , 3 * CONSTITUTION DISCOVERED . 25.
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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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Page 116 - Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 116 - ... minority of the community ; — and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modified by mutual interests.
Page 105 - 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.
Page 90 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 105 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.
Page 152 - What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, and, the next moment be deaf to all those motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery, than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Page 18 - By no act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingly, in giving circulation to papers of this description, directly or indirectly. We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live ; and, if the former be permitted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them.