Speech of Hon. James F. Simmons, of Rhode Island, on the State of the Union

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from Speech of Hon. James F. Simmons, of Rhode Island, on the State of the Union: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 16, 1861That is an illegal business it is profitable to be sure, but illegal - and you have no right to make our concern an illegal one. They would an swer, it was legal when the partnership 'was formed - you old fogies have altered the laws since, and not we - it was lawful business when the contract was drawn - we persist in it. We should look over the contract, and find it so, and though opposite to what we expected to be done, we should be obliged to submit. We are law-abiding men, and believe in the validity Of. Contracts. But suppose that after getting us into the slave trade, they should make another provision in the contract itself, that, the business should be continued, unless unanimously voted otherwise, and that we must carry on this piratical trade as long as there was a thief. Or a liar in the concern. What would he say to that? We would not agree to it I know. He would say, That is carrying things too far.'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.