You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. Caleb Cushing Read Quote
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons. Caleb Cushing Read Quote
We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. Caleb Cushing Read Quote
This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine. Caleb Cushing Read Quote
These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever. Caleb Cushing Read Quote
Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct. Caleb Cushing Read Quote
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms. Caleb Cushing Read Quote
Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord’s day. Caleb Cushing Read Quote
Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith? Caleb Cushing Read Quote
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers. Caleb Cushing Read Quote
