 | James William Massie - Slavery - 1864 - 534 pages
...though not formally so intended : — " Our Southern brethren had a right to manage their own aflairs in their own way, within the limits of the Constitution...own time and mode to regulate their relations to the coloured race, leaving the press of the land free. This right was awarded to them, not alone by the... | |
 | Charles Hudson - Lexington (Mass. : Town) - 1913 - 672 pages
...themselves. Realizing that they held their fortunes in their own hands, they naturally felt that they had a right to manage their own affairs in their own way. Holding the country by the double right of charter and of purchase, they could not divest themselves... | |
 | Arthur Wallace Dunn - Presidents - 1922 - 500 pages
...against battleships and an increase of the Army were for the time ready to tell Japan that our states had a right to manage their own affairs in their own way, and to back up their opinions with force. Secretary Bryan frequently gave utterance to his peace ideas.... | |
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York ; and if a reply has been forwarded, it has not yet reached its destination. The language of patriotism, from the pen of Dr. Brainerd, and published by his sympathizing friends at Philadelphia, may be accepted as a response, though not formally so... 