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If they are really aggrieved by any laws upon our Statute-books opposed to their rights if upon examination any such are found to be in conflict with the Constitution of these United States nay, further, if they but serve to irritate our brethren of the South, whether Constitutional or not, I, for one, have no objection that they should instantly be repealed."
What difference has it made in North Valley that there are such laws on the statute-books? Would you ever even know about them?" "Ah, now!" said Hal. "If you put it that way if your movement is to have the law enforced I'm with you!" "But how will you get the law enforced, except by a union? No individual man can do it it's 'down the canyon' with him if he mentions the law.
"If," said he, in a special message of July 25th, "the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States be one of the conditions of admitting Tennessee, and if, as is also declared by the preamble, said State Government can only be restored to its former political relations to the Union by the consent of the law-making power of the United States, it would really seem to follow that the joint resolution, which at this late day has received the sanction of Congress, should have been passed, approved and placed on the statute-books before any amendment to the Constitution was submitted to the State of Tennessee for ratification.
"That is the way that seven-up came to be set apart and particularized in the statute-books of Kentucky as being a game not of chance but of science, and therefore not punishable under the law," said Mr. K . "That verdict is of record, and holds good to this day." This party was one of those persons whom they call Philosophers.
"It's no use arguing this thing, you must keep a keen eye upon the English niggers; and when a man pretends to dispute the right, tell him its 'contrary to law, and to look at the statute-books; tell him it costs more to keep them than they're all worth; and if they say the law was never intended for foreign citizens, tell 'em its 'contrary to law. South Carolina's not bound to obey the voice of the General Government, and what does she care for the federal courts?
It was during Seward's administration that the "debtors' prison" was done away with, and it was, too, through his earnest recommendation that the last trace of law for slaveholding was wiped from the statute-books of the State of New York. The question of slavery was taken up most exhaustively in what was known as the "Virginia Controversy."
Human Statute-books, accordingly, are growing horrible to think of. An impiety and poisonous futility every Law of them that is so made; all Nature is against it; it will and can do nothing but mischief wheresoever it shows itself in Nature: and such Laws lie now like an incubus over this Earth, so innumerable are they. How long, O Lord, how long!
But, thank heaven, we have a remedy for that: for our statute-books are daily swelling. 'Why, yes! Some people say they are pregnant with mischief: of which it is further asserted that they are daily delivered. 'Ay, certainly; and to the great joy of the parents. 'Who are they? 'Enquire for the father at St. Stephen's; and for the mother at Westminster-hall.
Men may differ about the power or the expediency of giving the right of suffrage to the negro; but how any humane, just and Christian man can for a moment permit the laws that are on the statute-books of the Southern States and the laws now pending before their Legislatures, to be executed upon men whom we have declared to be free, I cannot comprehend." Mr. Reverdy Johnson replied to Mr.
The Federation of Catholic Societies have placed a law upon the statute-books of the nation, and of all the states as well; the whole power of police and courts and jails is at the service of religious bigots, and a young girl is sent to prison and forcibly fed with a tube through the nose for telling poverty-ridden, slum-women how to keep from becoming pregnant!
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