The American statesman: a political history, exhibiting the origin, nature and practical operation of constitutional government in the United States; . n. If this is to bethe remedy, that a majority of the people shall surrender their con-victions, and forbear to exercise the highest functions with which Godhas endowed a freeman, I am glad to hear it. They must go to thepolls next fall, and go through the idle ceremony of voting, for theresult is already a foregone conclusion ; and if your decrees are notregistered, the Union is dissolved. How idle the idea of equality,when we are told before
The American statesman: a political history, exhibiting the origin, nature and practical operation of constitutional government in the United States; . n. If this is to bethe remedy, that a majority of the people shall surrender their con-victions, and forbear to exercise the highest functions with which Godhas endowed a freeman, I am glad to hear it. They must go to thepolls next fall, and go through the idle ceremony of voting, for theresult is already a foregone conclusion ; and if your decrees are notregistered, the Union is dissolved. How idle the idea of equality,when we are told before exercising a right guarantied by the consti-tution, that, if, by the exercise of it, and in the manner prescribed bythe constitution, we succeed in electing a representative of our viewsas president, then the government is at an end ! Mr. Wade, of Ohio, said, it had been stated by the mover of thisresolution, that one great object of it was to elicit the state of north-ern feeling respecting the invasion at Harpers Ferry. Mr. Mason desired to correct the senator. What he had said was,that he wished to ascertain from what source Brown derived his.
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