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- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage
have banished slavery, from which it emanated. If black men have no rights in the eyes of white men, of course the whites can have none in the eyes … every proposition of reform by some standard of profit and loss, doing wrong from choice, and right only from necessity or some urgent demand of human selfishness, it would
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Ex parte Milligan
fill the place once occupied by Washington and Lincoln; and if this right is conceded, and the calamities of war again befall us, the dangers to human liberty are frightful … sure way of protecting the citizen against oppression and wrong. Knowing this, they limited the suspension to one great right, and left the rest to remain forever inviolable
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Northwest Ordinance
property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and, in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars … founded in justice and humanity, shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Closing Speech at the Constitutional Convention
fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more … Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong. But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012An Apology for Printers
serving all Parties, Printers naturally acquire a vast Unconcernedness as to the right or wrong Opinions contain’d in what they print; regarding it only as the Matter of their
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Constitution of the Iroquois Nations
chide you for any error or wrong you may do, but return to the way of the Great Law which is just and right. Look and listen for the welfare … Chiefs shall then, by right of such power and authority, enter the open concil to warn the Lord or Lords to return from the wrong course. If the Lords heed
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Augsburg Confession
pass that the vow annuls the commandment of God. The Canons teach that the right of the superior is excepted in every vow; [that vows are not binding against … kingdoms of this world, and to take the Empire from the Emperor. These wrongs have long since been rebuked in the Church by learned and godly men. Therefore our teachers
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Ninety-Five Theses
purgatory or to buy confessionalia. 36. Every truly repentant Christian has a right to full remission of penalty and guilt, even without letters of pardon. 37. Every true Christian, whether … permit the withdrawal of the endowments founded on their behalf, since it is wrong to pray for the redeemed?” 84. Again: -- “What is this new piety
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Address at Cooper Institute, New York City
where you ought to have started — to a discussion of the right or wrong of our principle. If our principle, put in practice, would wrong your section for the benefit … plied and belabored — contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong, vain as the search for a man who should be neither a living
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012A Plea for Free Speech in Boston
tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble … right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. It is just as criminal
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012John Brown’s Speech to the Court at his Trial
suffered and sacrificed what I have in this interference, it would have been all right; and every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward … freely admitted I have done — in behalf of His despised poor was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Dred Scott v. Sandford
legal right. In the first of these pleas, the plaintiff joined issue; and to the second and third filed replications alleging that the defendant, of his own wrong and without … respect, however, no more than what he might lawfully do if they were of right his slaves at such times. Further proof may be given on the trial for either
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise at Peoria, Illinois
enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong. I think, and shall try to show, that it is wrong; wrong … with tobacco, or stock it with horned cattle. Now, whether this view is right or wrong, it is very certain that the great mass of mankind take a totally different
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
lived during the great controversy of 1776. To say now that America was right, and England wrong, is exceedingly easy. Everybody can say it; the dastard, not less than … plotters of mischief, agitators and rebels, dangerous men. To side with the right, against the wrong, with the weak against the strong, and with the oppressed against the oppressor! here
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Underground Railroad
much opposed to slavery as I was, but thought it very wrong to harbor fugitive slaves. No one there knew of what crimes they were guilty; they might have killed … They should pass this and continue on the Colerain pike till they reached a right-hand road leading to College Hill. At the latter place they would find
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Keynote Address at Seneca Falls
which is her home as it is his — having the same sense of right and wrong and looking to the same Being for guidance and support. So long … last few months both in Rochester and Seneca Falls to discuss our rights and wrongs. We did not as some have supposed assemble to go into the detail of social
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board
sound doctrine, which was pestilent error before, and that false, which was true. Right and wrong have changed sides. The children must now join in chorus to denounce what they … summed up in two articles, — that they, themselves, are always infallibly right, and that all dissenters are certainly wrong, — be extinguished, — extinguished, not by violence, nor by proscription
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Henry Highland Garnet’s ‘Call to Rebellion’
untutored African who roams in the wilds of Congo. Nor has the one more right to the full enjoyment of his freedom than the other. In every man’s mind … every effort which the injured might make to disenthral themselves. Brethren, it is as wrong for your lordly oppressors to keep you in slavery
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Memorial to the Massachusetts Legislature
just judgment. Become the benefactors of your race, the just guardians of the solemn rights you hold in trust. Raise up the fallen, succor the desolate, restore the outcast, defend … over many things!” Injustice is also done to the convicts: it is certainly very wrong that they should be doomed day after day and night after night to listen
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Self Reliance
names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself … institutions. Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right. I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways