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Página 241 - WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free...
Página 444 - 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...
Página 240 - NOT worlds on worlds in phalanx deep, Need we to prove a God is here ; The daisy^, fresh from Nature's sleep, Tells of His hand in lines as clear.
Página 444 - 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 440 - We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge; as a criminal betrayal of precious rights; as part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region immigrants from the Old World, and free laborers from our own States, and convert it into a dreary region of despotism, inhabited by masters and slaves.
Página 20 - Pp. 131. 8vo. Cloth, . . - $0.75 TESTE. A Homoeopathic Treatise on the Diseases of Children. By ALPH. TESTE, MD Translated from the French by EMMA H. COTE. Fourth edition.
Página 239 - THERE is an eye that never sleeps Beneath the wing of night ; There is an ear that never shuts, When sink the beams of light.
Página 449 - Provided, That the right of suffrage and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States...
Página 226 - But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.
Página 324 - Pennsylvania holds the key to the important link of connection between the East and the West, and I most unhesitatingly say that when no principle of amity or commerce is to be violated, it is the right and duty of the State to turn her natural advantages to the promotion and welfare of her own people.

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