 | William Thomas - Abolitionists - 1835 - 196 pages
...destruction. None of the papers detained have been forwarded to me, and I cannot judge fur myself Lheir character and tendency ; but you inform me, that they...and the circumstances by which you are surrounded. * The obligation that we owe to the community in which we live requires us to conform to its laws,... | |
 | William Thomas - Abolitionists - 1835 - 200 pages
...We owe an obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live, and if \\\& former be perverted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism...and the circumstances by which you are surrounded. * The obligation that we owe to the community in which we Jive requires us to conform to its laws,... | |
 | William Thomas - Abolitionists - 1835 - 202 pages
...higher one to the communities in which we live, and if the^/brmer be perverted to destroy the tatter, it is patriotism to disregard them.* Entertaining...and the circumstances by which you are surrounded. * The obligation that we owe to the community in which we live requires us to conform to its laws,... | |
 | William Thomas - Abolitionists - 1835 - 208 pages
...you to deliver the papers of -which you speak. None of the papers detained have been forwarded to me. Your justification must be looked for in the character of the papers detained, and the circumstance? by whjch you are sur* rounded." That is to say, though I have no power to determine what... | |
 | William Leggett - Political science - 1840 - 344 pages
...papers of which you speak. The Post Office Department was created to serve the people of each and all of the United States, and not to be used as the instrument...letter contains. If, according to his ideas of the duties of patriotism, every postmaster, may constitute himself a judge of the laws, and suspend their... | |
 | William Goodell - History - 1852 - 810 pages
...to the lnu:i, but a higher one to the communities in which we live, and if the fanner be permitted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard...and the circumstances by which you are surrounded." Other Postmasters followed the example of the Postmaster at Charleston. The measure of suppression... | |
 | James Parton - Presidents - 1860 - 764 pages
...perverted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them. Entertaining these views, I can not sanction, and will not condemn the step you have taken....and the circumstances by which you are surrounded. •'t I am, etc., " AMOS KKNDAIX." This was a palpable shirking of the responsibility. The postmaster... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...obligation to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live, and if the former be permitted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard...and the circumstances by which you are surrounded. — Ibid, p. 418. PRESIDENT JACKSON, in his annual message. December, 1835, used these words in discussing... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live ; and, if the former be permitted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard...and the circumstances by which you are surrounded." Governor Seward has been widely charged and credited with the anthorehip of the "higher law" doctrine;... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...to the laws, but a higher one to the communities in which we live ; and, if the former be permitted to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard...and the circumstances by which you are surrounded." Governor Seward has been, widely charged and credited with the authorship of the " higher law " doctrine... | |
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... to destroy the latter, it is patriotism to disregard them. Entertaining these views I cannot sanction, and will not condemn the step you have taken. " Your justification must be looked for in the character of the papers detained, and the circumstances... 
