The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and HistoryA.R. Hart & Company, 1886 - 810 páginas |
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... of the Fathers in securing , as they thought , the gradual but certain extinction of Slavery in the United States ... Senate on the other , to give it free rein . The House insisted on a clause in the Act of admission providing , " That ...
... of the Fathers in securing , as they thought , the gradual but certain extinction of Slavery in the United States ... Senate on the other , to give it free rein . The House insisted on a clause in the Act of admission providing , " That ...
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... Senate resisted it - and the Bill fell . In the meantime , however , a Bill pass- ed both Houses forming the Territory of Arkansas out of that portion of the Territory of Missouri not included in the proposed State of Missouri , without ...
... Senate resisted it - and the Bill fell . In the meantime , however , a Bill pass- ed both Houses forming the Territory of Arkansas out of that portion of the Territory of Missouri not included in the proposed State of Missouri , without ...
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... States of the South was attributed by most of the Southern Free Traders solely to the Protective Tariff of 1828 , yet there were some Southerners willing to concede -as did Mr. Hayne , in the Senate ... United States Supreme Court ...
... States of the South was attributed by most of the Southern Free Traders solely to the Protective Tariff of 1828 , yet there were some Southerners willing to concede -as did Mr. Hayne , in the Senate ... United States Supreme Court ...
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... States may of right do . " At the subsequent meeting of the Legislaturé , Mr. Hayne , who had been a member of the Convention , having resigned his seat in the United States Senate , was elected Governor of the State . He declared in ...
... States may of right do . " At the subsequent meeting of the Legislaturé , Mr. Hayne , who had been a member of the Convention , having resigned his seat in the United States Senate , was elected Governor of the State . He declared in ...
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... United States . Thus commenced the War with Mexico - destined to end in the ... Senate upon the Wilmot proviso , which immediately ensued , was cut short by ... United States , and Peace reigned once more . About the same time a ...
... United States . Thus commenced the War with Mexico - destined to end in the ... Senate upon the Wilmot proviso , which immediately ensued , was cut short by ... United States , and Peace reigned once more . About the same time a ...
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Página 439 - That on the first day of January, in the year of "our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty"three, 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 682 - 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 18 - States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Página 184 - Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are...
Página 629 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the Providence of God, must needs come, but which having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge...
Página 514 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Página 11 - ... provided, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 497 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it...
Página 50 - We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand/ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Página 3 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.