The Life and Public Services of George Luther StearnsJ.B. Lippincott, 1907 - 389 páginas |
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Página 186 - Does it mean no more than that there may be extreme cases in which the people in any mode of assembling may resist usurpation and relieve themselves from a tyrannical government? No one will deny this. Such resistance is not only acknowledged to be just in America, but in England also. Blackstone admits as much in the theory and practice, too, of the English Constitution. We, sir, who oppose the Carolina doctrine do not deny that the people may, if they choose, throw off any government when it becomes...
Página 384 - Ah, well ! — the world is discreet ; There are plenty to pause and wait; But here was a man who set his feet Sometimes in advance of fate...
Página 170 - I understand perfectly your meaning. No countenance has been given to Brown for any operations outside of Kansas by the Kansas Committee. I had occasion, a few days ago, to send him an earnest message from some of his friends here, urging him to go at once to Kansas and take part in the coming election, and throw the weight of his influence on the side of the right.
Página 383 - Lift up yonr voices and weep for him ! For the warmest of hearts is frozen, The freest of hands is still ; And the gap in our picked and chosen The long years may not fill.
Página 273 - Pay ransom to the owner And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner ? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
Página 384 - For the warmest of hearts is frozen, The freest of hands is still ; And the gap in our picked and chosen The long years may not fill. No duty could overtask him, No need his will outrun ; Or -ever our lips eould ask him, His hands the work had done.
Página 83 - Government, we are told that the Slavery Question is settled. Yes, settled, — settled, — that is the word. Nothing, Sir, can be settled which is not right. [Sensation.'] Nothing can be settled which is against Freedom.
Página 161 - Worcester, or any other place, can be induced to supply a little "straw," if I will absolutely make "bricks"? I have written George L. Stearns, Esq., of Medford, and Mr. FB Sanborn, of Concord; but I am not informed as to how deeply-dyed Abolitionists those friends are, and must beg...
Página 197 - III. ceased to rule in New England. History will date Virginia emancipation from Harper's Ferry. True, the slave is still there. So, when the tempest uproots a pine on your hills, it looks green for months, — a year or two. Still, it is timber, not a tree. John Brown has loosened the roots of the slave system; it only breathes — it does not live — hereafter.
Página 144 - Your most welcome letter of the i6th ulto. came to hand on Saturday. I am very glad to learn that after your hard pilgrimage you are in more comfortable quarters with the means to meet present expenses.