Caucuses of 1860: A History of the National Political Conventions of the Current Presidential Campaign: Being a Complete Record of the Business of All the Conventions; with Sketches of Distinguished Men in Attendance Upon Them, and Descriptions of the Most Characteristic Scenes and Memorable EventsFollett, Foster, 1860 - 232 páginas |
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... " - I should consider the displeasure and hostile criticisms of partisans of all persuasions and organizations , the best testimony that I have kept this promise . M. H. CONTENTS . Page The Charleston Convention .. 1 The Constitutional.
... " - I should consider the displeasure and hostile criticisms of partisans of all persuasions and organizations , the best testimony that I have kept this promise . M. H. CONTENTS . Page The Charleston Convention .. 1 The Constitutional.
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... Constitutional Democratic Convention at Charleston ... The Baltimore National Constitutional Union Convention .. The Chicago Convention ....... 97 104 120 The Constitutional Democratic Convention at Richmond .... 154 The National ...
... Constitutional Democratic Convention at Charleston ... The Baltimore National Constitutional Union Convention .. The Chicago Convention ....... 97 104 120 The Constitutional Democratic Convention at Richmond .... 154 The National ...
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... Constitution with the South , it was high time the fact were known . This campaign was the test campaign . It must be fought on principle . There must be no Douglas dodges— no double constructions - no janus - faced lying resolutions ...
... Constitution with the South , it was high time the fact were known . This campaign was the test campaign . It must be fought on principle . There must be no Douglas dodges— no double constructions - no janus - faced lying resolutions ...
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... constitutional principles upon which our governmental fabric rests ? I stated I had for some time strongly suspected that the Democratic party was an or- ganization for the purpose of obtaining federal offices - in other words , a ...
... constitutional principles upon which our governmental fabric rests ? I stated I had for some time strongly suspected that the Democratic party was an or- ganization for the purpose of obtaining federal offices - in other words , a ...
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... Constitution . " [ Loud cheers . ] Opposed to us are those who labor to overthrow the Constitution , under the false and insidious pretense of supporting it ; those who are aiming to produce in this country a permanent sectional ...
... Constitution . " [ Loud cheers . ] Opposed to us are those who labor to overthrow the Constitution , under the false and insidious pretense of supporting it ; those who are aiming to produce in this country a permanent sectional ...
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Página 138 - 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 141 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Página 224 - That the government of a Territory organized by an act of Congress is provisional and temporary, and during its existence all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by Congressional or Territorial legislation.
Página 141 - That the new dogma that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States...
Página 203 - Truth crushed to earth will rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers; While error wounded writhes in pain, And dies amid her worshippers.
Página 141 - That, while providing revenue for the support of the general government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country...
Página 44 - Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union, in Convention assembled, hereby declare our affirmance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and declared as a platform of principles by the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, in the year 1856, believing that Democratic principles are unchangeable in their nature, when applied to the same...
Página 141 - Congress to take prompt and efficient measures for the total and final suppression of that execrable traffic. 10. That in the recent vetoes, by their Federal Governors, of the acts of the Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery in those Territories, we find a practical illustration of the boasted Democratic principle of Non-intervention and Popular Sovereignty embodied in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and a demonstration of the deception and fraud involved therein.
Página 64 - Inasmuch as differences of opinion exist in the democratic party as to the nature and extent of the powers of a territorial legislature, and as to the powers and duties of Congress, under the constitution of the United States, over the institution of slavery within the territories: 2. Resolved, That the democratic party will abide by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on the questions of constitutional law.
Página 54 - Democratic party do hereby pledge themselves to use every means in their power to secure the passage of some bill, to the extent of the constitutional authority of Congress, for the construction of a Pacific railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, at the earliest practicable moment.