Report of Executive Committee of the American Temperance Union

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Página 13 - And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years...
Página 53 - We choose rather to plant ourselves on what we consider impregnable positions. They are these : that a State has the same undeniable and unlimited jurisdiction over all persons and things within its territorial limits as any foreign nation, where that jurisdiction is not surrendered or restrained by the Constitution of the United States...
Página 49 - ... were indiscriminately denouncing the conduct of the war and the imbecility of the Government — bitter in their sarcasms against administrative mistakes, depressing in their belief of the hopelessness of the contest, and ungenerous in their appreciation of the only military leader who seemed likely to stand between the living and the dead and stay the plague, — I could see, however imperfectly, the one-sidedness of political partizanship which neutralized the best efforts of the Whig Journal.
Página 53 - The genius and character of the whole government seem to be, that its action is to be applied to all the external concerns of the nation, and to those internal concerns which affect the states generally ; but not to those which are completely within a particular state, which do not affect other states, and with which it is not necessary to interfere for the purpose of executing some of the general powers of the government.
Página 53 - ... which concerned the welfare of the whole people of a state, or any individual within it; whether it related to their rights, or their duties; whether it respected them as men, or as citizens of the state ; whether in their public or private relations ; whether it related to the rights of persons, or of property, of the whole people of a state, or of any individual within it; and whose operation was within the territorial limits of the state, and upon the persons and things within its jurisdiction.
Página 53 - If we were to attempt it, we should say that every law came within this description which concerned the welfare of the whole people of a State, or any individual within it, whether it related to their rights, or their duties; whether it respected them as men, or as citizens of the State; whether in their public or private relations; whether it related to the rights of persons or of property of the whole people of a State, or of any individual within it...
Página 36 - It is as plain to me as the sun in a clear summer sky, that the license laws of our country constitute one of the main pillars, on which the stupendous fabric of intemperance now rests.
Página 52 - The Constitution of the United States gives to Congress the power to enact laws for the regulation of commerce.
Página 25 - Build a church and penitentiary in every street, with all the means and appliances on the side of religion and virtue, and allow a dram-shop to be opened every second or third door, with all its means and appliances towards vice and crime, and the result will be, that, seconded by the inherent depravity of our nature, criminals of all sorts will be produced much faster than they can be reclaimed.

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