Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

Next quotes

• Caleb Cushing:

  Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting excl

• Caleb Cushing:

  I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or drive

• Caleb Cushing:

  I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it wi

• Caleb Cushing:

  If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave int

• Caleb Cushing:

  It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summ

• Caleb Cushing:

  Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan foref

• Caleb Cushing:

  Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye

• Caleb Cushing:

  Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement whi

• Caleb Cushing:

  Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy whi

• Caleb Cushing:

  Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recomme