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Términos y frases comunes
Abolitionists action Albany anti-slavery appointment Assembly ballot Baltimore Barnburners became bitter Bouck Buchanan campaign canal candidate Clay compromise Congress Conservatives Constitution contest Court Croswell declared defeat Demo Democratic party Dickinson Douglas election favoured Fernando Wood Fillmore Free-soil friends fugitive slave law Governor Seward Granger Henry honour Horace Greeley Horatio Seymour Hunkers Ibid indorsed influence James John Van Buren Kansas Know-Nothings leaders Legislature letter lieutenant-governor Lincoln majority Marcy ment Michael Hoffman Millard Fillmore nomination opponents opposed organisation platform popular Preston King principles question Radicals Random Recollections Republican party resolutions seceders secession seemed sentiment Silas Wright slavery Softs South Southern speaker speech Stanton statesman Syracuse territory Thurlow Weed Barnes ticket tion Union United States Senate Vice President vote W. H. Seward Washington Washington Hunt Webster Weed's Whig party Wilmot Proviso wrote Weed York City York delegation York Tribune Yorker Young
Pasajes populares
Página 221 - But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Página 152 - The Constitution regulates our stewardship; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
Página 175 - And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
Página 167 - Congress, the act known as the Fugitive Slave Law included, are received and acquiesced in by the Whig party of the United States as a settlement in principle and substance of the dangerous and exciting questions which they embrace...
Página 73 - ... our title to the whole of the territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable ; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power, and that the reoccupation of Oregon and the reannexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period, are great American measures, which this convention recommends to the cordial support of the democracy of the Union.
Página 167 - ... discountenance all efforts to continue or renew such agitation, whenever, wherever, or however the attempt may be made; and we will maintain this system as essential to the nationality of the Whig party, and the integrity of the Union.
Página 335 - We hope never to live in a republic whereof one section is pinned to the residue by bayonets.
Página 209 - SEC. 12. If any free person, by speaking or by writing, assert or maintain that persons have not the right to hold slaves in this territory, or shall introduce into this territory, print, publish, write, circulate, or cause to be introduced into...
Página 264 - That affair, in its philosophy, corresponds with the many attempts, related in history, at the assassination of kings and emperors. An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry were, in their philosophy, precisely the same.
Página 264 - Again: you say we have made the slavery question more prominent than it formerly was. We deny it. We admit that it is more prominent, but we deny that we made it so. It was not we, but you, who discarded the old policy of the fathers.