I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States,… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
