hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 4 results in 1 document section:

Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Calhoun—Nullification explained. (search)
nship, the chief object of this book is to justify and glorify the men of the Worcester Convention and the Higher Law, which they proclaimed. By that Higher Law the Union became a thing to be hated and destroyed—the Constitution (to use Dr. von Holst's language)—nothing but a dead piece of parchment, not even able to resist the attacks of moth and mice (see page 295), whenever it comes in conflict with their wills or convictions. On page 127 Dr. von Holst says: The facts and the ConDr. von Holst says: The facts and the Constitution, which had been framed according to the facts, were at fault. The founders of the Constitution had been under the necessity of admitting slavery into the Constitution, and the inevitable consequence was that conclusions, which were diametrically opposed to each other, could be logically deduced from it, by starting first from the fact that slavery was an acknowledged and protected institution, which, so faras the States were concerned, was out of the pale of the Federal jurisdiction,