ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
tion gives to slavery, ;Because it
of t -- let it stand.quot; Notanding his
special acuteness and ability, o take a fact out of
its merely political relations, and be as it lies absolutely
to be disposed of by tellect -- ance, it
beo do o-day o slavery,
but ventures, or is driven, to make some suce answer as
to speak absolutely, and as a
private man -- from w new and singular code of social
duties mig;t; says ;in whe
governments of tates o regulate it
is for tion, under ty to their
constituents, to ty, y, and
justice, and to God. Associations formed elsewhere, springing from
a feeling of y, or any otever to
do . t from me, and
t;
trutraced up
its stream no and, and and, by the
Constitution, and drink at it ty; but
t comes trickling into t
pool, gird up tinue their pilgrimage
tos fountain-head.
No man ion has appeared in America.
tory of tors,
politicians, and eloquent men, by t the speaker has
not yet opened o speak he
mucions of ts own
sake, and not for any trut may utter, or any
may inspire. Our legislators yet learned tive
value of free-trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a
nation. talent for comparatively humble
questions of taxation and finance, commerce and manufacturers and
agriculture. If solely to t of legislators