...it We hold no arbitrary authority over anything, whether acquired lawfully or seized by usurpation. The constitution regulates our stewardship ; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which regulates...

...would not exercise our constitutional rights to sustain the policy which we deem just and beneficent. The constitution regulates our stewardship ; the constitution...devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the constitution, which regulates our authority...

...accomplishment of their schemes. Mr. Wm. H. SEWABD, in one of his most celebrated speeches, said : — ' The Constitution regulates our stewardship. The Constitution devotes the domain to union, to mstice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which...

...Constitution " devotes the national domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty," " there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over that domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes." The term was thus used in proving the agreement...

...'* We hold no arbitrary authority over anything, whether acquired lawfully or seized by usurpation. The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates...

...our stewardship; the Constitution devotes our domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain." Vast and vague as the authority is, that may be thus claimed, it is at least founded upon an alleged...

...our stewardship; tlie Constitution devotes our domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain." Vast and vague as the authority is, that may be thus claimed, it is at least founded upon an alleged...

...our stewardship ; the Constitution devotes our domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain." Vast and vague as the authority is, that may be thus claimed, it is at least founded upon an alleged...

...uutagouistical systems — the labor of slaves nml the Ubor of freemen — for mastery in tho Federal Union. " There is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over tho domain. Slavery must be abolished, and we must do it. " Slavery is not and never can bo perpetual....

...statesmen, of the Country. On the nth of March, 1850, he made the famous declaration, in a speech : " There is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority." For this utterance he was violently assailed, by words, as a dangerous agitator. In his career in the...