A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential Nominations and Elections Including All the National Platforms Ever Yet Adopted: Also a History of the Struggle Respecting Slavery in the Territories, and of the Action of Congress as to the Freedom of the Public Lands, with the Most Notable Speeches and Letters of Messrs. Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Cass, Seward, Everett, Breckinridge, H. V. Johnson, Etc ., Etc., Touching the Questions of the Day; and Returns of All Presidential Elections Since 1836Tribune association, 1860 - 248 стор. |
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... Measures of 1850 .... WARD , JOHN E. , of Georgia , President of the Democratic National Convention , 1856 ....... WEBSTER , DANIEL , of Massachusetts , sup- ported by Massachusetts for President , 1836 . Defeated for President in Whig ...
... Measures of 1850 .... WARD , JOHN E. , of Georgia , President of the Democratic National Convention , 1856 ....... WEBSTER , DANIEL , of Massachusetts , sup- ported by Massachusetts for President , 1836 . Defeated for President in Whig ...
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... measure ; by admitting the constitutionality and expediency of Internal Improve- ments of a National character , and ... measures plainly dictated in all their principal features by blind cupidity or vindictive party spirit , marked ...
... measure ; by admitting the constitutionality and expediency of Internal Improve- ments of a National character , and ... measures plainly dictated in all their principal features by blind cupidity or vindictive party spirit , marked ...
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... measures , which this Convention recom- mends to the cordial support of the Democracy of the Union . Resolved , That these principles may be summed as TION , 1843 . Resolved , That human brotherhood is a cardinal prin- ciple NATIONAL ...
... measures , which this Convention recom- mends to the cordial support of the Democracy of the Union . Resolved , That these principles may be summed as TION , 1843 . Resolved , That human brotherhood is a cardinal prin- ciple NATIONAL ...
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... measure conducive to individual and social freedom , the Free States ought to keep in force suitable statutes ... measures whatever for the Abolition of Slavery within their respective limits ; by the continuance of Slavery in the ...
... measure conducive to individual and social freedom , the Free States ought to keep in force suitable statutes ... measures whatever for the Abolition of Slavery within their respective limits ; by the continuance of Slavery in the ...
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... measures of the Whig Party . This resolution met with decided opposition , and the president ruled it out of order , from which decision Mr. Campbell appealed , and in a speech contended that it was strictly in order to speech contended ...
... measures of the Whig Party . This resolution met with decided opposition , and the president ruled it out of order , from which decision Mr. Campbell appealed , and in a speech contended that it was strictly in order to speech contended ...
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Сторінка 127 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Сторінка 127 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Сторінка 127 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Сторінка 201 - In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Сторінка 132 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
Сторінка 177 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Сторінка 185 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Сторінка 22 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Сторінка 26 - ... is essential to the preservation of our Republican institutions; and that the Federal Constitution, the rights of the States and the Union of the States must and shall be preserved.
Сторінка 201 - This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments. And to the defense of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted.