1860–1877
What the Black Man Wants
. . .I have had but one idea for the last three years to present to the American people, and the phraseology in which I clothe it is the old
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. . .I have had but one idea for the last three years to present to the American people, and the phraseology in which I clothe it is the old
Mississippi’s secession statement emphasized the centrality of slavery as an institution to the Southern way of life.
My subject, then fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slave’s point of view. Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a Member (Ashland, Ohio: Ashbrook Center, 2014), 77-86, 208-23 and 234-235. Mr. SHERMAN[1] proposed, that the
Revolutionary rhetoric meets legislative reality as petitioners demand that liberty’s promises be honored in practice.
On Monday evening, the 5th current, a few minutes after 9 o’clock, a most horrid murder was committed in King Street before the customhouse door by 8 or 9 soldiers
Madison argues factions are inevitable in free societies, but a large republic limits their harm by dispersing power and interests.
To the people of the state of New York: TO WHAT expedient, then, shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments,
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the
… I shall, for the present, pass over to that part of your pamphlet, in which you endeavor to establish the supremacy of the British Parliament over America. After a