The Abolition Of Slavery The Right Of The Government Under The War Power

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Abolition Of Slavery The Right Of The Government Under The War Power, byVariousThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: The Abolition Of Slavery The Right Of The Government Under The War PowerAuthor: VariousEditor: William Lloyd GarrisonRelease Date: March 12, 2006 [EBook #17971]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABOLITION OF SLAVERY ***Produced by the University of Michigan as part of the "Making of America" digital library(http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moa/).THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY THE RIGHT OF THEGOVERNMENT UNDER THE WAR POWERBy William Lloyd Garrison and OthersEMANCIPATION UNDER THE WAR POWER.Extracts from the speech of John Quincy Adams, delivered in the U.S.House of Representatives, April 14 and 15, 1842, on War with GreatBritain and Mexico:—What I say is involuntary, because the subject has been brought into the House from another quarter, as thegentleman himself admits. I would leave that institution to the exclusive consideration and management of the Statesmore peculiarly interested in it, just as long as they can keep within their own bounds. So far, I admit that Congresshas no power to meddle with it. As long as they do not step out of their own bounds, and do not put the ...

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Title: The Abolition Of Slavery The Right Of The Government Under The War Power Author: Various Editor: William Lloyd Garrison Release Date: March 12, 2006 [EBook #17971] Language: English

THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY THE RIGHT OF THE GOVERNMENT UNDER THE WAR POWER By William Lloyd Garrison and Others

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ABOLITION OF SLAVERY ***

Produced by the University of Michigan as part of the "Making of America" digital library (http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moa/).

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I might furnish a thousand proofs to show that the pretensions of gentlemen to the sanctity of their municipal institutions under a state of actual invasion and of actual war, whether servile, civil or foreign, is wholly unfounded, and that the laws of war do, in all such cases, take the precedence. I lay this down as the law of nations. I say that military authority takes, for the time, the place of all municipal institutions, and slavery among the rest; and that, under that state of things, so far from its being true that the States where slavery exists have the exclusive management of the subject, not only the President of the United States, but the Commander of the Army, has power to order the universal emancipation of the slaves. I have given here more in detail a principle which I have asserted on this floor before now, and of which I have no more doubt than that you, sir, occupy that chair. I give it in its development, in order that any gentleman from any part of the Union may, if he thinks proper, deny the truth of the position, and may maintain his denial; not by indignation, not by passion and fury, but by sound and sober reasoning from the laws of nations and the laws of war. And if my position can be answered and refuted, I shall receive the refutation with pleasure; I shall be glad to listen to reason, aside, as I say, from indignation and passion. And if, by the force of reasoning, my understanding can be convinced, I here pledge myself to recant what I have asserted. Let my position be answered; let me be told, let my constituents be told, the people of my State be told—a State whose soil tolerates not the foot of a slave—that they are bound by the Constitution to a long and toilsome march under burning summer suns and a deadly Southern clime for the suppression of a servile war; that they are bound to leave their bodies to rot upon the sands of Carolina, to leave their wives widows and their children orphans; that those who cannot march are bound to pour out their treasures while their sons or brothers are pouring out their blood to suppress a servile, combined with a civil or a foreign war, and yet that there exists no power beyond the limits of the slave State where such war is raging to emancipate the slaves. I say, let this be proved—I am open to conviction; but till that conviction comes, I put it forth not as a dictate of feeling, but as a settled maxim of the laws of nations, that, in such a case, the military supersedes the civil power; and on this account I should have been obliged to vote, as I have said, against one of the resolutions of my excellent friend from Ohio, (Mr. Giddings,) or should at least have required that it be amended in conformity with the Constitution of the United States.