Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Prominent Men in the United States, on the Subject of Abolition and Agitation, and in Favor of the Compromise Measures of the Last Session of Congress, Addressed to the People of the State of New-York |
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Page 31 - Union ; when there was no commerce, no manufactures, little of agriculture, or of any of the arts calculated to make a powerful and, happy people. It was a period when there was no sound currency, no confidence between man and man, no harmony in the action of the different States. It was a period when men's hands were turned against their neighbors; when the courts were beset with armed men ; when law and justice were trampled under foot ; when our best towns and villages were threatened with pillage,...
Page 59 - Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you to inherit them for a possession ; they shall be your bondmen for ever : but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
Page 55 - No person held to service, or labor, in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another State, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Page 59 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Page 44 - Here it is, my friends, here — right here — in doing something in our day and generation towards " forming a more perfect Union " — in doing something by literature, by public speech, by sound industrial policy, by the careful culture of fraternal love and regard, by the intercourse of business and friendship, by all the means within our command — in doing something to leave the Union, when we die, stronger than we found it, — here — here is the field of our grandest duties and highest...
Page 33 - It is also agreed that if any servant run away from his master into any other of these confederated Jurisdictions, that in such case, upon the certificate of one magistrate in the Jurisdiction out of which the said servant fled, or upon other due proof ; the said servant shall be delivered, either to his master, or any other that pursues and brings such certificate or proof.
Page 14 - Upon this ground we have not the slightest hesitation in holding that, under and in virtue of the constitution, the owner of a slave is clothed with entire authority, in every State of the Union, to seize and recapture his slave, whenever he can do it, without any breach of the peace, or any illegal violence. In this sense and to this extent this clause of the constitution may properly be said to execute itself; and to require no aid from legislation, State or national.
Page 42 - ... his spheres, in its execution. //Accepting, then, these measures of Constitutional compromise, in the spirit of Union, let us set ourselves to suppress or mitigate the political agitation of slavery. / And in the first place, I submit that the two great political parties of the North are called upon by every consideration of patriotism and duty to strike this whole subject from their respective issues. I go for no amalgamation of parties, and for the forming of no new party. But I admit the deepest...
Page 42 - Has it not been your function for even a larger part of the last half century to rally with the South for the support of the general administration ? Has it not ever been your boast, your merit as a party, that you are in an intense, and even characteristic degree, national and unionist in your spirit and politics, although you had your origin in the assertion of State rights ; that you have contributed in a thousand ways to the extension of our territory and the establishment of our martial fame...
Page 27 - How delivered up ? This question is distinctly answered by the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case of Prigg v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. They say he is to be delivered up in the same manner that we deliver up our friends to the civil officer in our own State. We are bound to permit the master to take him wherever he finds him. We must not secrete him from the master. We must not defend him against the master ; nor are we to rescue him...