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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Ninth: Emancipation of the African race. (search)
such a contract would be an act of manumission, for a slave cannot make a contract. 3. There is still another clause. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union, a Republican form of Government. John Adams, in the correspondence of his old age, says: The customary meanings of the words Republican and Commonwealth have been infinite. They have been applied to every government under heaven—that of Turkey, and that of Spain, as well as that of Athens, and of Rome; of Geneva and San Marino. But the guaranteeing of a Republican form of Government, was too explicit to leave any doubt; and such a form could not embrace involuntary servitude. 4. Another source of power is found in—No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law. Liberty can thus be lost, only by due process of law. This was the sheet-anchor of all the old Bills of Rights. So Lord Coke defined it as being borrowed from the Common Law. The late Justice Brons
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xiii. (search)
such a contract would be an act of manumission, for a slave cannot make a contract. 3. There is still another clause. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union, a Republican form of Government. John Adams, in the correspondence of his old age, says: The customary meanings of the words Republican and Commonwealth have been infinite. They have been applied to every government under heaven—that of Turkey, and that of Spain, as well as that of Athens, and of Rome; of Geneva and San Marino. But the guaranteeing of a Republican form of Government, was too explicit to leave any doubt; and such a form could not embrace involuntary servitude. 4. Another source of power is found in—No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law. Liberty can thus be lost, only by due process of law. This was the sheet-anchor of all the old Bills of Rights. So Lord Coke defined it as being borrowed from the Common Law. The late Justice Brons
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Twelfth: his character and fame. (search)
ly part of this volume, in 1844, when he pronounced the oration on the true grandeur of nations; the burden of which was Peace, and which Cobden, its most eloquent advocate in Europe, had pronounced the noblest contribution ever made by any modern writer to the cause of peace. In that oration the memorable words were uttered which resounded through the world; which were quoted at every subsequent Peace Convention on the globe, and which were received with cheers when his health was drank at Geneva—In our age, there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable. He was now to see the two foremost nations of the earth practically adopt that sentiment, and come forward, setting an example for the first time, on so broad a scale, of yielding up all their claims and disputes to the awards of a peaceful arbitration. How far his repeated and noble efforts in behalf of this cause, had been influential in bringing about this grand result, can, of cours
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., VIII. (search)
ly part of this volume, in 1844, when he pronounced the oration on the true grandeur of nations; the burden of which was Peace, and which Cobden, its most eloquent advocate in Europe, had pronounced the noblest contribution ever made by any modern writer to the cause of peace. In that oration the memorable words were uttered which resounded through the world; which were quoted at every subsequent Peace Convention on the globe, and which were received with cheers when his health was drank at Geneva—In our age, there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable. He was now to see the two foremost nations of the earth practically adopt that sentiment, and come forward, setting an example for the first time, on so broad a scale, of yielding up all their claims and disputes to the awards of a peaceful arbitration. How far his repeated and noble efforts in behalf of this cause, had been influential in bringing about this grand result, can, of cours