[PDF] The Union The Constitution And Slavery Classic Reprint eBook

Author : Nathaniel Smith Richardson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780428349356

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Excerpt from The Union, the Constitution, and Slavery The struggle in which this nation is engaged has already reached that stage in its progress when words of counsel may be offered, when principles may be discussed, when, if any man can throw light upon the questions at issue, or say or do aught to assuage the bitterness of feeling, and become the in strument of Peace, he is bound not to keep silent. For almost three years, the fierce passions, the mighty energies, the vast resources of the entire country, North and South, have been called into full play at what terrible cost, it is too soon yet to estimate. We do not suppose that the War 1s yet at an end; but we do believe that Reason is beginning to resume her throne. Men are beginning to ask, when is this awful sac rifice of the young best life of the country to cease What are the ends, for which the War is to be protracted P What are the difficulties, in the way of securing those ends In re Sponding to these inquiries, in the present Article, we shall write with entire frankness and while we utter only our own individual convictions, we shall do it in complete independence of all political parties, and, as far as may be, of all sectional prejudices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Nathaniel Smith] 1810-1883 [Richardson
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781373279286

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Author : Charles James Jack
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 2015-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781332422906

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Excerpt from A Political Lecture Upon the Influence of Slavery on the Constitution and Union, Delivered at the Request of the Citizens of Brooklyn About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Wendell Phillips
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 15,26 MB
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780666557629

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Excerpt from The Constitution a Pro-Slavery Compact: Or Extracts From the Madison Papers These extracts develop most clearly all the details of that com promise, which was made between freedom and slavery, in 1787; granting to the Slaveholder distinct privileges and protection for his Slave property, in return for certain commercial concessions on his part toward the North. They prove also that the nation at large were fully aware of this bargain at the time, and entered into it willingly and with open eyes. We have added the late Address of the American anti-slavery' 1 (5) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Nathan Appleton
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2015-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781331278238

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Excerpt from Letter to the Hon. Wm; C. Rives, of Virginia: On Slavery and the Union My Dear Sir, - I have read with great satisfaction your letter published in the Richmond Whig, on "The Present Crisis and the Value of the Union." Agreeing with you that it is the duty of every good citizen, so far as may lay in his power, to allay the existing excitement, and to endeavor to bring us back to that state of fraternal feeling under which the North and the South mutually shed their blood to bring this nation into existence, and which for so many years harmonized in its unparalleled prosperity, I address this letter to you, and through you, to the public. I have, for many years, been retired from an active participation in public affairs, but have not been unobservant of the course of events; and, drawing to the close of a long life, can have no motive but to leave to my children the blessings of a free and stable government, which I have myself so long enjoyed. The present is a period of alarm and excitement greater than we have heretofore witnessed. The North and the South appear in all but hostile array against each other, and all growing out of the subject of Slavery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : C. Chauncey Burr
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2017-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780484588140

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Excerpt from History of the Union, and of the Constitution Daniel webster declared that The quantity of liberty we possess is precisely equal to the quantity of restraint which we put upon the government. And this is the rule. If the Government is restrained from put ting its hand in certain particulars upon you, to that ex tent you are free, and no more. All liberty, therefore, consists in putting such a restraint upon your govern ment that it cannot touch your rights or your liberties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2018-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781391816517

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Excerpt from The Compromise, the Constitution, and the Union The report of the thirteen Senators of the United States, as returned by Mr. Clay. The chairman of that committee is to the following efii - ct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Muscoe R. H. Garnett
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2018-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780364271537

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Excerpt from The Union, Past and Future: How It Works, and How to Save It In return for this surrender of her rights, the South inserted into the Consti tution two stipulations in her own favor. The first provided that direct taxes should be apportioned amongst the states in the ratio of their representation. According to this provision, we ought now to pay a little more than one-third of the taxes; we actually pay under the present system over three-fourths. The amount levied from customs since the foundation of the Government has been about 1047 millions of dollars; and had these duties been paid in the ratio which the Constitution indicates as just and proper, the South would have paid 442, and the North 605. But, as we shall see hereafter, the slave States have really paid 798 millions, and the free States only 249. Therefore the South has gained nothing by this stipulation in return for her loss of repte scutation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Noah Feldman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0374720878

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An innovative account of Abraham Lincoln, constitutional thinker and doer Abraham Lincoln is justly revered for his brilliance, compassion, humor, and rededication of the United States to achieving liberty and justice for all. He led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the US Constitution—a system he regarded as the “last best hope of mankind.” But how did Lincoln understand the Constitution? In this groundbreaking study, Noah Feldman argues that Lincoln deliberately and recurrently violated the United States’ founding arrangements. When he came to power, it was widely believed that the federal government could not use armed force to prevent a state from seceding. It was also assumed that basic civil liberties could be suspended in a rebellion by Congress but not by the president, and that the federal government had no authority over slavery in states where it existed. As president, Lincoln broke decisively with all these precedents, and effectively rewrote the Constitution’s place in the American system. Before the Civil War, the Constitution was best understood as a compromise pact—a rough and ready deal between states that allowed the Union to form and function. After Lincoln, the Constitution came to be seen as a sacred text—a transcendent statement of the nation’s highest ideals. The Broken Constitution is the first book to tell the story of how Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to remake it. To do so, it offers a riveting narrative of his constitutional choices and how he made them—and places Lincoln in the rich context of thinking of the time, from African American abolitionists to Lincoln’s Republican rivals and Secessionist ideologues. Includes 8 Pages of Black-and-White Illustrations

Author : A. Philiadelphian
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,54 MB
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780365216100

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Excerpt from Free Remarks on the Spirit of the Federal Constitution, the Practice of the Federal Government, and the Obligations of the Union: Respecting the Exclusion of Slavery From the Territories and New States The Congress of 1787 would seem to have been partien larly alive to the obligations in this matter, imposed by the facts which I have indicated above. They recognized the principle of universal abolition, in their proceeding with respect to the North West Territory; of which proceed ing the history and import are especially worthy of atten tion. The whole territory north of the river Ohio, and west of the state of Pennsylvania, extending northwardly to the northern boundary of the United States, and westwardly to the Mississippi, was claimed by Virginia. The states of Massachusetts and Connecticut claimed all that part which was within the breadth of their respective charters, and the state of New York had also an indeterminate claim to the country. As early as the year 1780, Congress recommended to all the states whose charters included ungranted ter ritory, to cede it to the Union for national purposes; and the states without such territory, always contended that the lands gained by the common exertions, were or ought to be common propertyflr Some of the smaller withheld their ratification of the articles of confederation, in order to compel the cession for which they called as matter of right; and finally they carried their point. The act of cession of the state of New York is prefaced with the following recital. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.