"If there be any plausible reason for supposing……" — Caleb Cushing
"If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions."
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Caleb Cushing
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your…
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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I…
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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and…
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And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions…
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by…
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I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or…
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I…
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is…
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption…
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such…
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The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of…
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