 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 376 strani
...and insurrectionary, and then announced : — " By no act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid knowingly in giving circulation...the former be perverted to destroy the latter, it if patriotism to disregard them. Entertaining these views, I cannot sanction, and will not condemn,... | |
 | 1897 - 678 strani
...29, 1835. POSTMASTER-GENERAL AMOS KENDALL said: By no act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingly, in giving circulation...communities in which we live, and if the former be permitted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them. Entertaining these views I cannot... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1900 - 278 strani
...no act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingly, in giv.'ng circulation to papers of this description, directly...communities in which we live, and if the former be permitted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them. Entertaining these views I cannot... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1903 - 414 strani
...received the endorsement of Amos Kendall, Postmaster-General, who said in his letter to the former: "We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one...in which we live; and if the former be perverted to 1 This view was expressed by General Duff Green. Intolerance and Reaction after 1830 43 destroy the... | |
 | Francis Curtis - 1904 - 568 strani
...forward or deliver the papers of which you speak. By nd act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingly, in giving circulation...communities in which we live; and, if the former be permitted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them. Entertaining these views, I cannot... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1908 - 1018 strani
...were situated as you are, I would do as you have done." To the postmaster at Charleston he wrote. " We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities In which we live." the South lost the aid of the government in its first battle with the Abolitionists. These early contests... | |
 | Henry William Elson - 1904 - 1016 strani
...situated as you are. I would do as you have done." To the postmaster at Charleston he wrote, " \Ve owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live." the South lost the aid of the government in its first battle with the Abolitionists. These early contests... | |
 | Howard Walter Caldwell - 1906 - 264 strani
...29, 1835, POSTMASTER-GENERAL AMOS KENDALL said: By no act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingly, in giving circulation...the communities in which we live, and if the former b« permitted to destroy the latter, it Is patriotism to disregard them. Entertaining these views I... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1906 - 766 strani
...warranted by law but clearly justified by the situation. To the postmaster of Charleston he wrote, " We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live." 19 This was in the summer of 1835. When Congress met in December, President Jackson sent in a message... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1906 - 410 strani
...declined to issue any official order to exclude matter duly mailed, but added the significant hint: "We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live." With this statement, which bears a singular kinship to the "higher law" principle of the abolitionists,... | |
| |
By no act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingly, in giving circulation to papers of this description, directly or indirectly. "We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we... 
