...involuntary servitude, as it exists in different states of this confederacy, is recognized by the Constitution. Franklin Pierce More Quotes by Franklin Pierce More Quotes From Franklin Pierce The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government. Franklin Pierce governmentcountryyears I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world. Franklin Pierce distancepoliticalviews I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic. Franklin Pierce devastationwarblood READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States . . . . Franklin Pierce governmentmindorder If the Federal Government will confine itself to the exercise of powers clearly granted by the Constitution , it can hardly happen that its action upon any question should endanger the institutions of the States or interfere with their right to manage matters strictly domestic according to the will of their own people. Franklin Pierce
