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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 1 1 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 4: no union with slaveholders!—1844. (search)
eclare the contract at an end, and to refuse to serve under it. Every man that is called upon to administer the Constitution of the United States, or act under it in any respect, is bound, in honor, and faith, and duty, to take it in its ordinary acceptation, and to act upon it as it was understood by those who framed it, and received by the people when they adopted it, and as it has been practised upon since, through all administrations of the Government (Daniel Webster at Philadelphia, Dec. 2, 1846. Works, 2: 312). On the subject of our relations with the South and its slavery, we must—as I have always thought—do one of two things: either keep honestly the bargain of the Constitution, as it shall be interpreted by the authorities to whom we have agreed to confide its interpretation,—of which the Supreme Court of the United States is the chief and safest,—or declare honestly that we can no longer in our consciences consent to keep it, and break it (George Ticknor to W. E. Channing,