The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to the Revolt of the Southern StatesAppleton, 1866 - 491 páginas |
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... man upon any terms of actual equality with the white . This anomaly is especially marked in Massachusetts , at last the most forward of all the States in promoting the cause of anti - slavery , although equality of civil.
... man upon any terms of actual equality with the white . This anomaly is especially marked in Massachusetts , at last the most forward of all the States in promoting the cause of anti - slavery , although equality of civil.
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... actual question at that time was not in regard to the contin- uance of slavery , but how to make the apportionment of di- rect taxes and representation between the Northern and the Southern States . The solution of the difficulty was ...
... actual question at that time was not in regard to the contin- uance of slavery , but how to make the apportionment of di- rect taxes and representation between the Northern and the Southern States . The solution of the difficulty was ...
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... actual view in which the slave was regarded by the provisions of the Constitution is determined by the language of Hamilton , in the Federal- ist ( No. 54 ) , as follows : " The Federal Constitution , therefore , decides with great.
... actual view in which the slave was regarded by the provisions of the Constitution is determined by the language of Hamilton , in the Federal- ist ( No. 54 ) , as follows : " The Federal Constitution , therefore , decides with great.
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... actual course of events follow- ing its settlement , the probabilities are that the result would have been otherwise than that contemplated by its supporters . The question , it may be believed , would have been conclu- sively ...
... actual course of events follow- ing its settlement , the probabilities are that the result would have been otherwise than that contemplated by its supporters . The question , it may be believed , would have been conclu- sively ...
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... actual sectional measure which ob- tained legislative sanction in the country . It was an inci- dental blow at a great fact in the habitual practice of a large portion of the inhabitants of the country . It was an imputa- tion , having ...
... actual sectional measure which ob- tained legislative sanction in the country . It was an inci- dental blow at a great fact in the habitual practice of a large portion of the inhabitants of the country . It was an imputa- tion , having ...
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Página 189 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Página 358 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 189 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various...
Página 184 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
Página 24 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Página 189 - One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Página 105 - That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Página 440 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts...
Página 117 - No petition, memorial, resolution, or other paper, praying the abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia, or any State or Territory, or the Slave Trade between the States or Territories of The United States in which it now exists, shall be received by this House, or entertained in any way whatever, be, and the same is hereby, rescinded.
Página 275 - Congress, the act known as the Fugitive Slave law included, are received and acquiesced in by the Whig party of the United States as a settlement in principle and substance of the dangerous and exciting questions which they embrace...