History of the Rebellion: Its Authors and CausesFollet, Foster, 1864 - 490 páginas |
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Página 397 - of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individual or association of individuals to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be, maintained."* There
Página 39 - Whereas the traffic in slaves is irreconcilable with the principles of humanity and justice : and whereas both His Majesty and the United States are desirous of continuing their efforts to promote its entire abolition, it is hereby agreed that both the
Página 117 - That petitions for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia and the Territories of the United States, and against the removal of slaves from one State to another, are a part 'of a plan of operations set on foot to affect the institution of slavery in the several States, and thus indirectly to
Página 113 - Resolved, That all petitions, memorials, and papers touching the abolition of slavery, or the buying, selling, or transferring slaves in any State, or district, or territory of the United States, be laid on the table without being debated, printed, read, or referred, and that no action be taken thereon.
Página 482 - has perhaps never been called into exercise under the present Constitution of the United States. But when the laws of war are in force, what, I ask, is one of those laws? It is this : that when a country is invaded, and two hostile armies are set In martial array,
Página 362 - We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge ; as a criminal betrayal of sacred rights ; as a part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region
Página 362 - a part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region emigrants from the old world and free laborers from our own States, and convert it into a dreary region
Página 11 - Let it be remembered that it has ever been the pride and boast of America that the rights for which she contended were the rights of human nature, and
Página 134 - Resolved, That the Secretary of "War be directed to report to this House the natural, political, and martial history of the bloodhounds; showing the peculiar fitness of that class of warriors to be the associates of the gallant army of the United States
Página 397 - republican institutions; and the Federal Constitution, the rights of the States and the union of the States shall be preserved. " Resolved, That with our republican fathers, we hold