Macaulay's Speeches on Copyright: Lincoln's Cooper Institute AddressLongmans, Green, 1915 - 93 páginas |
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Abraham Baldwin Abraham Lincoln amendments argument author's death better bill bookseller born Boswell's Brearley School Comus Congress COOPER INSTITUTE ADDRESS copy debate declared died Edinburgh Review Edited Elected England Essay famous fathers who framed favor Federal authority Federal Government Federal Territories forbade the Federal framed the Government friend would give Government to control Harper's Ferry honorable and learned House Illinois insurrection Introduction John Johnson learned friend literary Literature live Lord Mahon Lord Mahon's Macaulay Macaulay's speeches Mahon ment Milton's Molière monopoly noble friend's plan novels orators original Constitution Paradise Lost parliament passed Poems political present President principle Professor of English prohibit slavery proper division published question Refutation Samuel Johnson Serjeant Talfourd Shakspere's Sir Richard Jebb slave slavery slavery in Federal SPEECHES ON COPYRIGHT suppression Tennyson's term of copyright thirty-nine tion Tom Jones twenty twenty-eight vote whole writings wrong York
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Página 56 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican President ! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us ! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, " Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer...
Página 50 - John Brown was no Republican ; and you have failed to implicate a single Republican in his Harper's Ferry enterprise. If any member of our party is guilty in that matter, you know it or you do not know it. If you do know it, you are inexcusable for not designating the man and proving the fact.
Página 35 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now.
Página 90 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western...
Página 42 - ... appeared different from that of their twenty-three compeers, had it been manifested at all. For the purpose of adhering rigidly to the text, I have purposely omitted whatever understanding may have been manifested by any person, however distinguished, other than the thirty-nine fathers who framed the original Constitution; and, for the same reason, I have also omitted whatever understanding may have been manifested by any of the " thirtynine " even, on any other phase of the general question...
Página 53 - John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. It was an attempt by white men to get up a revolt among slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact, it was so absurd, that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed.
Página 53 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Página 55 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Página 47 - ... speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it. This is all Republicans ask, all Republicans desire, in relation to slavery. As those fathers marked it, so let it be again marked, as an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated and protected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity.
Página 36 - Let us now inquire whether the "thirty-nine," or any of them, ever acted upon this question; and if they did, how they acted upon it — how they expressed that better understanding.