Leaven for Doughfaces: Or, Threescore and Ten Parables Touching Slavery

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Bangs, 1856 - 336 páginas
 

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Página 280 - The scope and effect of the language of repeal were not left in doubt. It was declared, in terms, to be " the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to
Página 329 - master or owner in this Territory, or any State or other Territory, such officer shall be fined in a sum of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. SEC. 11. If any person print, write, introduce into, publish or circulate, or cause to be brought into, printed, written, published
Página 262 - that the laws be faithfully executed, and specially enjoined by the Constitution, to give information to Congress on the state of the Union, it would be palpable neglect of duty on my part to pass over a subject like this, which beyond all things, at the present time, vitally concerns individual and public security. INNER
Página 278 - to agitate certain localities. But the true principle, of leaving each State and Territory to regulate its own laws of labor according to its own sense of right and expediency, had acquired fast hold of the public judgment, to such a degree that, by common consent, it was observed in the organization of the Territory of Washington.
Página 283 - Popular Sovereignty : on the contrary, it will disappear before the cunning and foresight of Slaveholders, who will, through the ballot-box itself, silently but irresistibly destroy the power of the People to govern themselves. 21. If the friends of the Constitution are to have another struggle, its enemies could not present a more acceptable issue than that of a State,
Página 329 - any slave that may have escaped from the service of his master or owner, whether such slave shall have escaped from his master or owner in this Territory, or any State or other Territory, such officer shall be fined in a sum
Página 329 - hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. SEC. 11. If any person print, write, introduce into, publish or circulate, or cause to be brought into, printed, written, published
Página 278 - restrictions were, in the estimation of many thoughtful men, null from the beginning, unauthorized by the Constitution, contrary to the treaty stipulations for the cession of Louisiana, and inconsistent with the equality of these States.
Página 266 - which retained, and those which did not retain a numerous colored population, escaped notice, or failed to be considered. And yet the concession of that vast territory to the interests and opinions of the northern States, a territory now the seat of five among the largest members of the Union, was, in

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