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... legislation the Presi- dent has a veto on the action of the Senate , and in appointments and treaties the Senate has a veto on the President . He has no more right to tell me how I shall vote on his appointments than I have to tell him ...
... legislation the Presi- dent has a veto on the action of the Senate , and in appointments and treaties the Senate has a veto on the President . He has no more right to tell me how I shall vote on his appointments than I have to tell him ...
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... accepted the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1856. In his letter of acceptance , he used the following language : The recent legislation of Congress respecting do- mestic slavery , 22 [ Oct. 15 Stephen A. A. Douglas.
... accepted the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1856. In his letter of acceptance , he used the following language : The recent legislation of Congress respecting do- mestic slavery , 22 [ Oct. 15 Stephen A. A. Douglas.
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... legislation is founded upon principles as ancient as free govern- ment itself , and in accordance with them has sim- ply declared that the people of a Territory , like those of a State , shall decide for themselves whether slav- ery ...
... legislation is founded upon principles as ancient as free govern- ment itself , and in accordance with them has sim- ply declared that the people of a Territory , like those of a State , shall decide for themselves whether slav- ery ...
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... legislation . " Although it is a right established by the Constitution of the United States to take a slave into a Territory of the United States and hold him as property , yet unless the territorial legislature will give friendly ...
... legislation . " Although it is a right established by the Constitution of the United States to take a slave into a Territory of the United States and hold him as property , yet unless the territorial legislature will give friendly ...
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... legislation to enable him to enjoy that constitutional right . Can he withhold the legis- lation which his neighbor needs for the enjoy- ment of a right which is fixed in his favor in the Constitution of the United States which he has ...
... legislation to enable him to enjoy that constitutional right . Can he withhold the legis- lation which his neighbor needs for the enjoy- ment of a right which is fixed in his favor in the Constitution of the United States which he has ...
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Página 45 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 174 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Página 142 - I have no purpose directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 180 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Página 144 - ... only because they want to vote, and eat, and sleep, and marry with negroes! He will have it that they cannot be consistent else. Now I protest against the counterfeit logic which concludes that because I do not want a black woman for a slave, I must necessarily want her for a wife.
Página 294 - ... understood the question just as well, and even better than we do now." But enough. Let all who believe that " our fathers, who framed the Government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now," speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it.
Página 35 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Página 364 - Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by our fathers who framed the government under which we live...
Página 144 - I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Página 287 - ... to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn, in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all.