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第 57 頁 - If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that, Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I lov'd Caesar less, but that I lov'd Rome more. Had you rather
第 141 頁 - asked Douglas the following question: Can the people of a United States Territory in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits, prior to the formation of a State constitution? In
第 35 頁 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now." I fully indorse this, and I adopt it as a text for this discourse. I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and agreed starting-point for
第 220 頁 - has dotted over the surface of the whole globe her possessions and military posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
第 170 頁 - method of refutation and the fallacies, if any, in the following arguments: 1. It is said that the control of trusts by the Federal Government is unjustifiable and unconstitutional. But why should not the Government control such monopolistic and unjustifiable combinations,? 2. With the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1,
第 36 頁 - local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government to control slavery in our Federal territories? Upon this, Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and the Republicans the negative. This affirmation and denial form an issue; and this issue—this question—is precisely what the text declares our fathers understood "better than we.
第 173 頁 - You charge that we stir insurrections among our slaves. We deny it; and what is your proof? Harper's Ferry! John Brown 1 John Brown was no Republican; and you have failed to implicate a single Republican in his Harper's Ferry enterprise. If any member of our party is guilty in that matter, you know
第 152 頁 - I understand the honorable gentleman from South Carolina to maintain that it is a right of the State legislatures to interfere whenever, in their judgment, this Government transcends its constitutional limits, and to arrest the operation of its laws. I understand him to maintain this right as a right
第 173 頁 - John Brown was no Republican; and you have failed to implicate a single Republican in his Harper's Ferry enterprise. If any member of our party is guilty in that matter, you know it or you do not know it. If you do know it, you are
第 169 頁 - was bare absurdity: no less than a thing may be lawfully driven away from a place where it has a lawful right to be. Clear it of all the verbiage, and that is the naked truth of his proposition, that a thing may be lawfully driven from the place where it has a lawful right to