 | United States. Congress - United States - 1853 - 720 pages
...declare, to an assembly of citizens, that the States were free from their moral obligations? ''And 1 that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the ' duty of some to prepare definitely for a separa' tion, peaceably if they can, violently if they 'must?" No, sir. Had such expressions been established,... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1853 - 726 pages
...a dissolution of this Union; • that it will free the States from their moral ob• Hgation. and, as it will be the right of all, so it • will be the duly of some, definitely to prepare • for a separation, amicably if they can, violently i if they... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 240 pages
...virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation; and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must." Mr. President, I wish it to be distinctly... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 714 pages
...virtually a dissolution of the Union ; that it will ' free the States from their moral obligation ; and, ' as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty ' of some, to prepare for a separation, amicably if ' we can, violently if we must." This gentleman was called to order,... | |
 | Joel Parker - Slavery - 1856 - 92 pages
...Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will...— amicably if they can, violently if they must." I should not do justice to the subject, if some further extracts from that speech were not presented... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will...— amicably if they can, violently if they must." I should not do justice to the subject, if some further extracts from that speech were not presented... | |
 | Josiah Quincy - History - 1856 - 32 pages
...this Union are virtually dissolved; the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations; and that as it will be the right of all, so it will...duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, —peaceably if they can, violently if they must" The results and duties then stated are as true and... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 916 pages
...dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare...— amicably if they can, violently if they must" * Being called to order, Quincy, " to save all misapprehension," reduced his declarations to writing... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1905 - 546 pages
...are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations ; and that as it will be the right of all, so it will...— amicably if they can, violently if they must." He thus asserted the indefeasible right of resisting acts that were plainly unconstitutional ; it was... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - Literature, Modern - 1859 - 614 pages
...passed, these bonds were at once virtually dissolved, and that it was the right of all the States, and the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably if they can, forcibly if they must. These ravings of a diseased imagination have not altogether ceased. Even in... | |
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I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be... 
