 | William Graham Sumner - 1910 - 532 strani
...own discretion, and then said for himself : " By no act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingly, in giving circulation...papers of this description, directly or indirectly " (ie, papers alleged by the postmaster to be " the most inflammatory and incendiary, and insurrectionary... | |
 | Jesse Macy - 1919 - 270 strani
...to issue such an order. Yet he would not recommend the delivery of such papers. "We owe," said he, "an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the...communities in which we live, and if the former be peWerted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them. Entertaining these views, I cannot... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1928 - 636 strani
...was founded and concludes by setting in motion that dangerous doctrine, "The Higher Law." He said: We owe an obligation to the laws but a higher one...communities in which we live and if the former be prevented to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them. Entertaining these views I cannot... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1928 - 632 strani
...was founded and concludes by setting in motion that dangerous doctrine, "The Higher Law." He said: We owe an obligation to the laws but a higher one...communities in which we live and if the former be prevented to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them. Entertaining these views I cannot... | |
 | 1865 - 696 strani
...accepting euch action in the following words : — " 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 the latter, it is patriotism slaves, and of political power, ensued upon the opening of new territory... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 strani
...or deliver the papers of which you •peaJL" " By no act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid, knowingly, in giving circulation...papers of this description, directly or indirectly. owe an obligation to the latct, but a ker one to the communities in which we ; and, if the Jonaer be... | |
 | David Grimsted - 1998 - 392 strani
...tacit blessing to action against abolition literature by invoking a higher law of social preservation: "We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the community in which we live and, if the former be perverted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism... | |
 | Russell Lowell Riley, Russell Lynn Riley - 1999 - 404 strani
...forward or deliver the papers of which you speak — By no act or direction of mine, off1cial or private, could I be induced to aid knowingly in giving circulation...a higher one to the communities in which we live; if the former be perverted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them.9 The policy thus... | |
 | Jeffery A. Smith - 1999 - 337 strani
...antislavery mail.10 "We owe an obligation to the laws," explained Jackson's postmaster general, Amos Kendall, "but a higher one to the communities in which we live,...destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them."11 public opinion was deeply divided over the conflict.12 Critics of the administration's actions... | |
 | Peter Moore, Tyler - 1999 - 638 strani
...serve the people and not to injure them, he said: By no act or direction of mine, official or private, could I be induced to aid knowingly in giving circulation...of this description directly or indirectly. We owe our obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the community in which we live; and if the former be... | |
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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... 
