 | Edward Channing - United States - 1896 - 378 pages
...do it." He now swept aside historical subtleties and constitutional precedents and declared "there is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates...the domain and devotes it to the same noble purposes ['to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty']." This appeal to "the higher law"... | |
 | Edward Payson Powell - Mathematics - 1897 - 488 pages
...the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, and to liberty. But there is a law higher than the Constitution which regulates our authority...domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.'' It was a battle of giants such as this country never had before seen in Congress ; and to which nothing... | |
 | Susan Bullitt Dixon ("Mrs. Archibald Dixon, ") - Missouri compromise - 1899 - 654 pages
...message, and some extracts from his speech are given as germane to the history of the period : "But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates...in the highest attainable degree, their happiness. "And now, the simple, bold and even awful question which presents itself to us, is this : shall we,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 498 pages
...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...domain and devotes it to the same noble purposes. — from a speech in the United States Senate, March 15th, 1830. Higher Law— Wendell Phillips: We... | |
 | Clement Anselm Evans - Confederate States of America - 1899 - 808 pages
...the Constitution and give equality in the Union may be judged from the appended opinions: "There ia a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over the domain. Slavery must be abolished, and we must do it."— Wm. H. Seward. "The time is fast approaching when... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - Cabinet officers - 1900 - 684 pages
...we held no arbitrary power over them. " But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which r j regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes...in the highest attainable degree their happiness. . . . " The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to... | |
 | Education - 1898
...Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates...domain and devotes it to the same noble purposes. ... I feel assured that slavery must give way, 'and will give way, to the salutary instructions of... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - Statesmen - 1900 - 282 pages
...Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates...domain and devotes it to the same noble purposes. ... 1 feel assured that slavery must give way, and will give way, to the salutary instructions of economy,... | |
 | Frederic Bancroft - Statesmen - 1900 - 576 pages
...a part of another paragraph, with which it had no connection.— Globe, Apdx., 387. 259 " But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates...domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes." Now no matter what that higher law really was, there was no room for objecting to it, on the basis... | |
 | Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry - Confederate States of America - 1900 - 338 pages
...uphold the Constitution and give equality in the Union may be judged from the appended opinions: "There is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over the domain. Slavery must be abolished, and we must do it." — Wm. H. Sernard. "The time is fast approaching when... | |
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The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it... 
