 But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator...  Westward Extension, 1841-1850 - Page 324by George Pierce Garrison - 1906 - 366 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1850 - 678 pages
...Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher...authority over the domain and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed... | |
 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher...authority over the domain and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed... | |
 | Samuel Thayer Spear - 1850 - 36 pages
...defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a Idyker law than the Constitution, which regnlates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part—no inconsiderable part—of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Governors - 1851 - 872 pages
...it We hold no arbitrary authority over anything, whether acquired lawfully or seized by usurpation. The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution...over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposea The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1851 - 780 pages
...stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, »nd to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution,...over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Governors - 1851 - 910 pages
...defence, to welfare, and to liberty. " But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulatei our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed... | |
 | William Hosmer - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1852 - 226 pages
...We hold no arbitrary authority over any thing, whether acquired lawfully, or seized by usurpation. The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution...over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed... | |
 | William Henry Seward - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...it. "We hold no arbitrary authority over anything, whether acquired lawfully or seized by usurpation. The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution...over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed... | |
 | Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - Amazon River - 1854 - 234 pages
...it. We hold no arbitrary authority over anything, whether acquired lawfully or seized by usurpation. The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution...over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed... | |
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