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This bill indeed is less undisguised in its object, and less direct in its means, than some of the measures proposed. It is an attempt to exercise the power of forcing the free men of this country into the ranks of an army, for the general purposes of war, under color of a military service. It is a distinct system, introduced for new purposes, and not connected with any power, which the Constitution has conferred on Congress....
The question is nothing less, than whether the most essential rights of personal liberty shall be surrendered, and despotism embraced in its worst form.... I am anxious, above all things, to stand acquitted before God, and my conscience, and in the public judgments, of all participations in the Counsels, which have brought us to our present condition, and which now threaten the dissolution of the Government. When the present generation of men shall be swept away, and that this Government ever ...
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by Daniel Webster, November 1990
This bill indeed is less undisguised in its object, and less direct in its means, than some of the measures proposed. It is an attempt to exercise the power of forcing the free men of this country into the ranks of an army, for the general purposes of war, under color of a military service. It is a distinct system, introduced for new purposes, and not connected with any power, which the Constitution has conferred on Congress....
The question is nothing less, than whether the most essential rights of personal liberty shall be surrendered, and despotism embraced in its worst form.... I am anxious, above all things, to stand acquitted before God, and my conscience, and in the public judgments, of all participations in the Counsels, which have brought us to our present condition, and which now threaten the dissolution of the Government. When the present generation of men shall be swept away, and that ...
Conscription
by Daniel Webster, November 1990
This bill indeed is less undisguised in its object, and less direct in its means, than some of the measures proposed. It is an attempt to exercise the power of forcing the free men of this country into the ranks of an army, for the general purposes of war, under color of a military service. It is a distinct system, introduced for new purposes, and not connected with any power, which the Constitution has conferred on Congress....
The question is nothing less, than whether the most essential rights of personal liberty shall be surrendered, and despotism embraced in its worst form.... I am anxious, above all things, to stand acquitted before God, and my conscience, and in the public judgments, of all participations in the Counsels, which have brought us to our present condition, and which now threaten the dissolution of the Government. When the present generation of men shall be swept away, and that ...
