Proceedings of the Indignation Meeting Held in Faneuil Hall, Thursday Evening, August 1, 1878: To Protest Against the Injury Done to the Freedom of the Press by the Conviction and Imprisonment of Ezra H. HeywoodBenj. R. Tucker, 1878 - 68 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 60 - Banish all objects of lust, shut up all youth into the severest discipline that can be exercised in any hermitage, ye cannot make them chaste, that came not thither so : such great care and wisdom is required to the right managing of this point.
الصفحة 61 - It would be better done, to learn that the law must needs be frivolous, which goes to restrain things, uncertainly and yet equally working to good and to evil. And were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil doing. For God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more than the restraint of ten vicious.
الصفحة 60 - Why should we then affect a rigor contrary to the manner of God and of nature, by abridging or scanting those means, which books freely permitted are, both to the trial of virtue, and to the exercise of truth?
الصفحة 19 - The power of establishing post-roads must, in every view, be a harmless power ; and may perhaps, by judicious management, become productive of great public conveniency. Nothing which tends to facilitate the intercourse between the states, can be deemed unworthy of the public care.
الصفحة 30 - All that Congress meant by this act was that the mail should not be used to transport such corrupting publications and articles, and that any one who attempted to use it for that purpose should be punished.
الصفحة 19 - The broad statement that the federal government can exercise no powers except those specifically enumerated in the Constitution, and such implied powers as are necessary and proper to carry into effect the enumerated powers, is categorically true only in respect of our internal affairs.
الصفحة 7 - ... make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that roproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
الصفحة 25 - ... the transportation of printed matter in the mail, which is open to examination, so as to interfere in any manner with the freedom of the press. Liberty of circulating is as essential to that freedom as liberty of publishing; indeed, without the circulation, the publication would be of little value. If, therefore, printed matter be excluded from the mails, its transportation in any other way cannot be forbidden by Congress.
الصفحة 23 - The power possessed by Congress embraces the regulation of the entire postal system of the country. The right to designate what shall be carried necessarily involves the right to determine what shall be excluded.
الصفحة 26 - To give efficiency to its regulations and prevent rival postal systems, it may perhaps prohibit the carriage by others for hire over postal routes of articles which legitimately constitute mail matter, in the sense in which those terms were used when the...