The Life of Stephen A. DouglasHarper & Brothers, 1860 - 528 páginas |
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... south of a line drawn east and west across the state , at what is the present northern boundary of Sangamon County ; the counties of Sangamon and Morgan embracing the terri- tory then included in the limits of half a dozen of the ...
... south of a line drawn east and west across the state , at what is the present northern boundary of Sangamon County ; the counties of Sangamon and Morgan embracing the terri- tory then included in the limits of half a dozen of the ...
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... South of and including Peoria , every representa- tive and senatorial district is provided with one or more rail- roads passing through them . But , to make the bill even more palatable , the following provision was inserted , being the ...
... South of and including Peoria , every representa- tive and senatorial district is provided with one or more rail- roads passing through them . But , to make the bill even more palatable , the following provision was inserted , being the ...
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... south of Morgan and Sangamon counties included two dis- tricts , while the vast region extending northward to the lake and to the Wisconsin line was all embraced in one district . The convention system was again put into operation , and ...
... south of Morgan and Sangamon counties included two dis- tricts , while the vast region extending northward to the lake and to the Wisconsin line was all embraced in one district . The convention system was again put into operation , and ...
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... South as soon as the North ; for Texas as soon as Oregon . And I will here do my Southern friends the justice to say that I firmly believe , and never doubted that , if war had arisen out of the Oregon question , when once declared ...
... South as soon as the North ; for Texas as soon as Oregon . And I will here do my Southern friends the justice to say that I firmly believe , and never doubted that , if war had arisen out of the Oregon question , when once declared ...
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... south of that line . He was , he said , unwilling to concede to Great Britain the free navigation of any river in the United States . The British min- ister rejected the offer , and Mr. Polk then asserted the Amer- ican claim to the ...
... south of that line . He was , he said , unwilling to concede to Great Britain the free navigation of any river in the United States . The British min- ister rejected the offer , and Mr. Polk then asserted the Amer- ican claim to the ...
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Página 192 - That the Constitution, and all Laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Página 478 - ... and that the States so formed shall be distinct republican States, and admitted members of the Federal Union ; having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence, as the other States.
Página 337 - that all political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their benefit; and that they have at all times an undeniable and indefeasible right to alter their form of government in such manner as they may think expedient.
Página 403 - ... exactly fitting, and all the lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few, not omitting even...
Página 201 - 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...
Página 497 - Columbia. ;' 2. That this was the basis of the Compromises of 1850, confirmed by both the Democratic and Whig parties in National Conventions ; ratified by the people in the election of 1852, and rightly applied to the organization of the Territories in 1854.
Página 405 - But if it is, how can he resist it? For years he has labored to prove it a sacred right of white men to take negro slaves into the new Territories. Can he possibly show that it is less a sacred right to buy them where they can be bought cheapest?
Página 189 - First. That all questions pertaining to slavery in the Territories and in the new States to be formed therefrom are to be left to the decision of the people residing therein, through their appropriate representatives. "Second. That 'all cases involving title to slaves...
Página 305 - March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the states and territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void...