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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... necessary elucidation of the residue . Without apology , there- fore , or further explanation , the Text - Book is commended to the favor of the American public . NEW - YORK , August 1st , 1860 . • CONTENTS . PAGE 12 ABOLITION CONV . at ...
... necessary elucidation of the residue . Without apology , there- fore , or further explanation , the Text - Book is commended to the favor of the American public . NEW - YORK , August 1st , 1860 . • CONTENTS . PAGE 12 ABOLITION CONV . at ...
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... necessary qualifications for the ford . This was the end of " King Caucus . " Chief of a great and free people , and present- Gen. Jackson was immediately thereafter put ing a searching criticism on the institution of in nomination for ...
... necessary qualifications for the ford . This was the end of " King Caucus . " Chief of a great and free people , and present- Gen. Jackson was immediately thereafter put ing a searching criticism on the institution of in nomination for ...
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... necessary to make a nomination or to decide any question connected therewith . On the first ballot for President , Mr. Van Buren was nominated unanimously , re- ceiving 265 votes . For Vice - President , Richard M. Johnson , of Kentucky ...
... necessary to make a nomination or to decide any question connected therewith . On the first ballot for President , Mr. Van Buren was nominated unanimously , re- ceiving 265 votes . For Vice - President , Richard M. Johnson , of Kentucky ...
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... necessary expenses of the government . WHIG NATIONAL CONVENTION , 1844 . A Whig National Convention assembled in Baltimore , on the 1st of May , 1844 , in which every State in the Union was represented . Am- Resolved , That we are ...
... necessary expenses of the government . WHIG NATIONAL CONVENTION , 1844 . A Whig National Convention assembled in Baltimore , on the 1st of May , 1844 , in which every State in the Union was represented . Am- Resolved , That we are ...
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... necessary to a choice . ] Of ter knows , or has greater reason to deplore , what he has seen sadly on the field of ... necessary expenses of the government , and for the the prosecution of a just and necessary war , after peace- gradual ...
... necessary to a choice . ] Of ter knows , or has greater reason to deplore , what he has seen sadly on the field of ... necessary expenses of the government , and for the the prosecution of a just and necessary war , after peace- gradual ...
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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.