Book/Printed Material Speech of Cassius M. Clay, before the Law Department of the University of Albany, N.Y., February 3, 1863. African American Pamphlet Collection copy

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  • Image 1 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy SPEECH OF CASSIUS M. CLAY, BEFORE THE LAW DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY, N. Y., FEBRUARY 3, 1863. NEW YORK: WYNKOOP, HALLENBECK & THOMAS, PRINTERS, No. 113 Fulton Street. 1863.
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 2 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy SPEECH OF CASSIUS M. CLAY, BEFORE THE LAW DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY, N. Y., FEBRUARY 3, 1863. NEW YORK: WYNKOOP, HALLENBECK & THOMAS, PRINTERS, NO. 113 FULTON STREET. 1863.
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 3 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 4 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy SPEECH OF C. M. CLAY, Introduction. Gentlemen of the Law Department, Ladies, and Fellow-Citizens: All history unites in one conclusion; that knowledge and virtue constitute the basis of the permanent grandeur and...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 5 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 4 eternal relations of things are “laws.” Well may it then be said, that “without law, there is no liberty.” I stand before you the defender of “law.” A citizen of the...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 6 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 5 mobs and “personal liberty bills,” enacted into law in some Republican States, was in violation of the Constitution, and just cause of a dissolution of the Union. Grant its truth, for...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 7 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 6 Again: article 4, section 2, United States Constitution, declares that, “The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.” The...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 8 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 7 certainly it is not. We had a “confederation;” it was full of will; but had no power to enforce it. History is before us. We overthrew the old confederation of these...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 9 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 8 claimed for the National Government. But this is not all. The States are forbidden after 1808 to import slaves, without the consent of Congress. “No State shall enter into any treaty,...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 10 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 9 a State, so far as they are repugnant to the Constitution and laws of the United States, are absolutely void. They are members of the one great Empire. ” So thought...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 11 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 10 part; unless obliged to it from necessity. ” “Since, then, a nation is obliged to preserve itself, it has a right to every thing necessary to its preservation, provided these means...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 12 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 11 the privilege of habeas corpus: in that clause (art. 1, sec. 9, cl. 2, C. U. S.) which declares that “The writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when,...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 13 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 12 not every one see that it applies more especially to the President, who, from his power of appointment, is just the person most dangerous in this respect? The argument, then, proves...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 14 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 13 a subject of so much importance, this was not here done without design. It was matured in committee: and the inference is, that this power was designed to be left with...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 15 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 14 Republic. Hence this clamor of “great is Diana of the Ephesians,” and “of the overthrow of the Constitution!” These traitors to the Constitution, who habitually, in the name of slavery, overrode...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 16 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 15 which they cannot adjust, and are compelled to decide it by force of arms.” “The obligation of observing the common laws of war are therefore absolute—and the same which the law...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 17 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 16 property, we have the right to deprive their claimants of its use, and thus compel them to submission. The Emperor of Russia, in the arbitration between England and the United States,...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 18 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 17 Its Safety and Expediency. Whilst there is no sane man outside the Slave States who doubts the legality and justice of the abolition of slavery, let us, then, examine the expediency...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 19 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 18 barbarities the whites excelled the blacks; importing shiploads of bloodhounds from Cuba! Liberty was restored in 1830; abolished under the monarchy, and again finally established in 1848. The Danes tried gradualism,...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 20 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 19 family life, accessible to Christianity, eager for instruction. Those of its members who have returned to vagrancy, sloth, and corruption, are not a reproach to race as much as to the...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 21 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 20 Democracy, or that Republicanism, North or South, which denies, without regard to merit, civil rights to the blacks. They are far more worthy of civil and political liberty than many of...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 22 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 21 and whilst the other monarchies may threaten us on one side, we are, on the other, safe in the defense of the greatest liberal of all Europe, Alexander II., who is...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 23 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 22 have never doubted. A hereditary Slave State herself, she has ever made slavery subordinate to the higher interests secured by the Constitution and the Union. Whatever opinion she may have of...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 24 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 23 of States. It grew into an avowed struggle for political ascendancy in the whole Union, Free and Slave States. It culminated in war in Kansas; and finally in rebellion and disunion....
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 25 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 24 desired by peaceable means to check its power and to subject it to the civilizing influences of the age, North and South; we were told to be quiet—time would cure all...
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863
  • Image 26 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy
    • Contributor: Clay, Cassius Marcellus - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) - Ya Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1863

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Title
Speech of Cassius M. Clay, before the Law Department of the University of Albany, N.Y., February 3, 1863.
Contributor Names
Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903.
African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
New York, Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas, Printers, 1863.
Subject Headings
-  United States--Politics and government--1861-1865
-  Slavery--United States
Notes
-  Also available in digital form.
Medium
24 p. 20 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
E458.3 .C57
E185 .A254 container C, no. 56 Another copy. Formerly part of YA Collection: YA 8854. Source unknown.
YA 16581 Copy no. undetermined.
Digital Id
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbaapc.05600
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00120289809
Library of Congress Control Number
11009632
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Clay, Cassius Marcellus, African American Pamphlet Collection, and Ya Pamphlet Collection. Speech of Cassius M. Clay, before the Law Department of the University of Albany, N.Y., February 3. New York, Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas, Printers, 1863. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/11009632/.

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Clay, C. M., African American Pamphlet Collection & Ya Pamphlet Collection. (1863) Speech of Cassius M. Clay, before the Law Department of the University of Albany, N.Y., February 3. New York, Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas, Printers. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/11009632/.

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Clay, Cassius Marcellus, African American Pamphlet Collection, and Ya Pamphlet Collection. Speech of Cassius M. Clay, before the Law Department of the University of Albany, N.Y., February 3. New York, Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas, Printers, 1863. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/11009632/>.