KEY-NOTES OF AMERICAN LIBERTY;1866 |
Términos y frases comunes
Aaron Burr ABRAHAM LINCOLN aforesaid agent or attorney amendment American Andrew Jackson Andrew Johnson appointed April army arrest authority born bureau cause Circuit Court citizens civil claim claimant colony committed Confederation Congress Constitution convention conviction declare deemed district dollars Dred Scott duty elected ELECTORAL VOTE.-For President enforce ernment execute existing fellow-citizens flag Fort Snelling further enacted George Clinton Georgia hereby House of Representatives inaugurated March issued John judge judicial jurisdiction jury land lawfully laws legislature letters of marque liberty Martin Van Buren Massachusetts ment military Millard Fillmore nation naval necessary North oath object offences officers ordinance organized Territory party patriotism peace Pennsylvania person or persons plaintiff present proclamation proper provisions punishment purpose reason rebellion respective revenue Saint Helena Senate service or labor slavery slaves South Carolina Tennessee Territory thereof tion unconstitutional Union United vessel Vice-President Virginia voting Washington Whereas whole number York
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Página 51 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; 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 94 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
Página 20 - ... 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class, shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class...
Página 27 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Página 74 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Página 99 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Página 225 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Página 224 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Página 89 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Página 35 - ... 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.