Mirror of Modern Democracy: A History of the Democratic Party, from Its Organization in 1825, to Its Last Great Achievement, the Rebellion of 1861. To which is Prefixed a Sketch of the Old Federal and Republican PartiesN. C. Miller, 1864 - 270 páginas |
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... Missouri Compromise - Non - intervention , 175- 177. Chase's Speech , 176. Who are the Agitators ? 176 , 177. Passage of the Kansas - Nebraska Bill , 177. Opposition to Anti - Slavery Settlers in Kan- sas ; Illegal Voting ; Territorial ...
... Missouri Compromise - Non - intervention , 175- 177. Chase's Speech , 176. Who are the Agitators ? 176 , 177. Passage of the Kansas - Nebraska Bill , 177. Opposition to Anti - Slavery Settlers in Kan- sas ; Illegal Voting ; Territorial ...
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... Missouri Compromiso ; Op- position to Free Kansas , 244. Supreme Court on Slavery , 244 , 245. The Democratic Party allied to Secession , 245. New York and Albany Secession Meetings ; Speeches of Governor Seymour and Thayer , 245-249 ...
... Missouri Compromiso ; Op- position to Free Kansas , 244. Supreme Court on Slavery , 244 , 245. The Democratic Party allied to Secession , 245. New York and Albany Secession Meetings ; Speeches of Governor Seymour and Thayer , 245-249 ...
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... Missouri : Yea , 1 . From this record of votes , it appears , that Maine , New Hampshire , and Massachusetts , which were fishing and navigating States , were almost unanimous against the tariff . Rhode Island and Connecticut ...
... Missouri : Yea , 1 . From this record of votes , it appears , that Maine , New Hampshire , and Massachusetts , which were fishing and navigating States , were almost unanimous against the tariff . Rhode Island and Connecticut ...
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... Missouri : Nay , 1 . The bill , somewhat amended , passed the Senate , 26 to 21 , as follows : Maine : Nays , 2 . ( Webster ; ) nay , 1 , necticut : Yeas , 2 . New Hampshire : Nay , 1. Massachusetts : Yea , 1 , ( Silsbee . ) Rhode ...
... Missouri : Nay , 1 . The bill , somewhat amended , passed the Senate , 26 to 21 , as follows : Maine : Nays , 2 . ( Webster ; ) nay , 1 , necticut : Yeas , 2 . New Hampshire : Nay , 1. Massachusetts : Yea , 1 , ( Silsbee . ) Rhode ...
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... Missouri : Yeas , 2 , ( Benton and Barton . ) The indignation of the South excited by the passage of this act , was not allayed until after the enactment of the Compromise act of 1833 . One year remained of Mr. Adams ' Presidential term ...
... Missouri : Yeas , 2 , ( Benton and Barton . ) The indignation of the South excited by the passage of this act , was not allayed until after the enactment of the Compromise act of 1833 . One year remained of Mr. Adams ' Presidential term ...
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Página 233 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God?
Página 73 - The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes on the list of Executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of reform, which will require particularly the correction of those abuses that have brought the patronage of the Federal Government into conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment and have placed or continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands.
Página 115 - ... declare war against the other, on complaints of injuries or damages until the said party considering itself offended, shall...
Página 230 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...
Página 176 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise 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...
Página 219 - It follows from these views that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence within any state or states against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Página 187 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Página 16 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary.
Página 223 - The whole of the laws which were required to be faithfully executed were being resisted and failing of execution in nearly one-third of the States. Must they be allowed to finally fail of execution, even had it been perfectly clear that by the use of the means necessary to their execution some single law, made in such extreme tenderness of the citizen's liberty that practically it relieves more of the guilty than of the innocent, should to a very limited extent be violated! To state the question...
Página 200 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS...