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But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and
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William H. Seward:
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then,William H. Seward:
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves tWilliam H. Seward:
I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed oWilliam H. Seward:
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all oWilliam H. Seward:
I submit, on the other hand, most respectfully, that the Constitution not merely does not affirm thWilliam H. Seward:
If slavery, limited as it yet is, now threatens to subvert the Constitution, how can we as wise andWilliam H. Seward:
It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a souWilliam H. Seward:
It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and wWilliam H. Seward:
Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States herWilliam H. Seward:
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery.