Slavery: Letters And Speeches

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Slavery: Letters And Speeches
Mann, Horace, 1796-1859
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I know no mode of recognition that can add a tittle of weight to it." Catching the tone of his asseveration, I respond that I know no form of statement, nor process of reasoning, which can make it more clear, that this is an absolute and wanton sur- render of the rights of the north and the rights of humanity.
But I hold the Texan resolutions to have been ut- terly void; and proceed to give the reasons for my opinion.
I begin by quoting Mr. Webster against himself. In an address to the people o
...f the United States, emanating from the Massachusetts Anti-Texas state convention, held January 29th, 1845, the subjoined passage, which is Digitized by VjOOQIC 267 understood, or rather, I may say, is now well known, to have been dictated by Mr. Webster himself, may be found : — " But we desire not to be misunderstood. According to our convictions, there is no power in any branch of the gov- ernment, or all its branches, to annex foreign territory to this Union. We have made the foregoing remarks only to show, that, if any fair construction could show such a power to ex- ist any where, or to be exercised in any form, yet the manner of its exercise now proposed is destitute of all decent semblance of constitutional propriety.^'* Thus cancelling the authority of Mr.

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