Slavery Doomed: Or, The Contest Between Free and Slave Labour in the United StatesSmith, Elder & Company, 1860 - 224 стор. |
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... ment . True it is that their Christianity took a strong ascetic turn , a dispensation half way between the Old and New Testaments ; but they were honest in their convictions , and quickly found out that Slavery was not consonant with ...
... ment . True it is that their Christianity took a strong ascetic turn , a dispensation half way between the Old and New Testaments ; but they were honest in their convictions , and quickly found out that Slavery was not consonant with ...
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... ment of the laws of 1808 , 1818 , 1819 , and 1820 , the last declaring the traffic to be piracy , and punishable with death . We have now arrived at the period when the Slaveholding oligarchy began to feel themselves sufficiently ...
... ment of the laws of 1808 , 1818 , 1819 , and 1820 , the last declaring the traffic to be piracy , and punishable with death . We have now arrived at the period when the Slaveholding oligarchy began to feel themselves sufficiently ...
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... ment . They gained not merely " the foreign vote , " but that opposing interest which could not be bought over - the educated masses of the Northern cities -who eventually were driven from the polls and sickened of politics , by seeing ...
... ment . They gained not merely " the foreign vote , " but that opposing interest which could not be bought over - the educated masses of the Northern cities -who eventually were driven from the polls and sickened of politics , by seeing ...
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... ment and the Governments of the States within whose dominions it lies ; we can under no circumstances sur- render our preponderance in the adjustment of all questions arising out of it . " 4. Resolved , That in view of so commanding an ...
... ment and the Governments of the States within whose dominions it lies ; we can under no circumstances sur- render our preponderance in the adjustment of all questions arising out of it . " 4. Resolved , That in view of so commanding an ...
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... ment and support towards maintaining the rights of the resident settlers , receives a letter from Secretary Marcy , charging him with irregular proceedings in the purchase of Indian lands . Having arrived at Kansas , Reeder addresses a ...
... ment and support towards maintaining the rights of the resident settlers , receives a letter from Secretary Marcy , charging him with irregular proceedings in the purchase of Indian lands . Having arrived at Kansas , Reeder addresses a ...
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Сторінка 179 - That Congress has no power, under the Constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs not prohibited by the Constitution...
Сторінка 60 - The inhabitants and settlers in the said territory shall be subject to pay a part of the federal debts contracted or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government, to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments thereof shall be made on the other states...
Сторінка 80 - After we shall have offered Spain a price for Cuba far beyond its present value, and this shall have been refused, it will then be time to consider the question — Does Cuba, in the possession of Spain, seriously endanger our internal peace and the existence of our cherished Union ? Should this question In.
Сторінка 215 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now.
Сторінка 185 - ... the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures has been violated — they have been deprived of life, liberty, and property, without due process of law...
Сторінка 84 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Сторінка 183 - ... the people of the United States, without regard to past political differences or divisions, who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to the policy of the present Administration, to the extension of slavery into free territory, in favor of admitting Kansas as a free State, of restoring the action of the Federal Government to the principles of Washington and Jefferson...
Сторінка 60 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Сторінка 185 - WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Сторінка 184 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power, it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery.