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 ... Etc., Touching the Questions of the Day; and Returns of All Presidential Elections Since 1836Tribune association, 1860 - 254 páginas |
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... bills , votes , etc. , presented in this work , the error is unintentional and regretted . Our purpose was to compile a record acceptable and convenient to men of all parties , and which might be consulted and trusted by all . Whatever ...
... bills , votes , etc. , presented in this work , the error is unintentional and regretted . Our purpose was to compile a record acceptable and convenient to men of all parties , and which might be consulted and trusted by all . Whatever ...
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... bill Accepts nomination for Presidency .. 187 211 .......... 51 52 BRONSON , Judge GREENE C. , on Slavery , letter affirming Slavery to exist only by positive law .... 208 26 BROWN , AARON V. , of Tennessee , de- feated for Vice ...
... bill Accepts nomination for Presidency .. 187 211 .......... 51 52 BRONSON , Judge GREENE C. , on Slavery , letter affirming Slavery to exist only by positive law .... 208 26 BROWN , AARON V. , of Tennessee , de- feated for Vice ...
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... bill which is 237 Governor , 1859 .. 248 passed in the House .. 185 The Senate refused to act upon it .. 187 228 Governor , 1860 .. Mr. Grow introduces another in 1860 , which 240 224 passes the House ... 188 66 Governor , 1858 ...
... bill which is 237 Governor , 1859 .. 248 passed in the House .. 185 The Senate refused to act upon it .. 187 228 Governor , 1860 .. Mr. Grow introduces another in 1860 , which 240 224 passes the House ... 188 66 Governor , 1858 ...
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... Bill passed ; House refuses to concur ... QUITMAN , Gen. JOHN A. , of Mississippi , beaten for Vice - President in ... bill ; Mr. Chase proposes to au- thorize the people of Kansas to prohibit Sla- very therein ; Opposed by Messrs . Bell ...
... Bill passed ; House refuses to concur ... QUITMAN , Gen. JOHN A. , of Mississippi , beaten for Vice - President in ... bill ; Mr. Chase proposes to au- thorize the people of Kansas to prohibit Sla- very therein ; Opposed by Messrs . Bell ...
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... bill repealing the Missouri Compromise ; President Pierce on Kansas Af- fairs in '55 -'6 ; Mr. Douglas's Report on ... bill to pacify Kansas .. Mr. Trumbull's amendments thereto ; Do. Messrs . Foster's , Wilson's and Seward's ; Passage ...
... bill repealing the Missouri Compromise ; President Pierce on Kansas Af- fairs in '55 -'6 ; Mr. Douglas's Report on ... bill to pacify Kansas .. Mr. Trumbull's amendments thereto ; Do. Messrs . Foster's , Wilson's and Seward's ; Passage ...
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Página 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 to do so.
Página 249 - Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact : as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact...
Página 201 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Página 249 - Resolved, That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Página 201 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy, meeting in all instances the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries...
Página 109 - 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...
Página 25 - That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
Página 26 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 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.
Página 26 - ... 1. That the history of the nation, during the last four years, has fully established the propriety and necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the Republican party, and that the causes which called it into existence are permanent in their nature, and now, more than ever before, demand its peaceful and constitutional triumph.