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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
t about this time there commenced what history will record as a war upon the institution of slavery. Zzznorthern States nullify the Constitution. Instead of upholding and enforcing the constitutional guarantee which I have read, many States of the North enacted laws making it a criminal offence for any official to comply with his oath of office and comply with the terms of the Constitution, so far as it affected this question. This was done against the protest of such great men as Edward Everett and Daniel Webster. This precise question was discussed by that great statesman, Daniel Webster, in his Buffalo speech of May 22, 1851. He said: Then there was the other matter, and that was the fugitive-slave law. Let me say a word about that. Under the provisions of the Constitution, during Washington's administration, in the year 1793, there was passed by general consent a law for the restoration of fugitive slaves. Hardly any one opposed it at that period; it was thought to
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.26 (search)
would not amount to the fighting done by Early. A sea shell, says Emerson, should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also because of the hard finish of the men. She is mistress of the seas; she is the dictator of finance and commerce—there is the key of her ascendancy. Who, then, would you say next? Would you say Clive, the military statesman who conquered Hindoostan? He, who at the battle of Plassey, on the 23d of June, 1757, in Everett's fine words, laid the foundations of a subject Empire to Great Britain at the gates of the morning? When it is remembered that he dispersed the army of the Indian Nabob, estimated at sixty or seventy thousand, with a thousand European soldiers and two thousand Indian Sepoy troops, and that his training was that of a government clerk, his genius and accomplishments are plain indeed. But when we reflect that his loss was twenty-two killed and about fifty wounded, and that his superior arti