Annual Report and Proceedings, Volúmenes14-18Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 1846 |
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... Congress pro- ceeded with all convenient speed to crown the work of An- nexation . Joint Resolutions were introduced by Mr. MIL- TON BROWN , suitable for the accomplishment of this purpose . These resolutions were debated with much ...
... Congress pro- ceeded with all convenient speed to crown the work of An- nexation . Joint Resolutions were introduced by Mr. MIL- TON BROWN , suitable for the accomplishment of this purpose . These resolutions were debated with much ...
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... Congress and peo- ple to consent to the Annexation , and to form the Republican Constitution , necessary to the admission of its " lone star " to the constellation that sheds its selectest influences upon the symbolic stripes of the ...
... Congress and peo- ple to consent to the Annexation , and to form the Republican Constitution , necessary to the admission of its " lone star " to the constellation that sheds its selectest influences upon the symbolic stripes of the ...
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... Congress , therefore , the Na- tion of Texas offered herself at the threshold of the Union , and presenting the proofs that she had complied with all the conditions required of her , and proffering a constitution to which the most ...
... Congress , therefore , the Na- tion of Texas offered herself at the threshold of the Union , and presenting the proofs that she had complied with all the conditions required of her , and proffering a constitution to which the most ...
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... Congress to annex a foreign country by legislation ; that such act of admission would have no binding effect upon the people of Massachusetts ; that such annexation could only be made by the people in their original sovereign capacity ...
... Congress to annex a foreign country by legislation ; that such act of admission would have no binding effect upon the people of Massachusetts ; that such annexation could only be made by the people in their original sovereign capacity ...
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... Congress , the Hon . ROBERT C. WINTHROP , has on more than one occasion announced it as his political creed , that " the Union , however bounded , " is to be maintained and defended ! It is but too evident that an influential , if not a ...
... Congress , the Hon . ROBERT C. WINTHROP , has on more than one occasion announced it as his political creed , that " the Union , however bounded , " is to be maintained and defended ! It is but too evident that an influential , if not a ...
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Annual Report and Proceedings, Volúmenes19-21 Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society Vista completa - 1851 |
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Abolition Abolitionism Abolitionists action addressed adjournment adopted agitation amendment American Anti-Slavery Society American Slavery Annual Meeting Anti believe Board Boston brethren British BUFFUM cause character Christian Church colored Committee Congress Constitution Convention crime declared Democratic Douglass duty earnest EDMUND QUINCY effect Emancipation enemies England excited existence faithful Faneuil Hall fidelity following resolution FRANCIS JACKSON Free Soil Party friends fugitive GARRISON Government hands heart held honor hope human interest JOHN justice labors Legislature liberty Massachusetts Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society ment Messrs Mexico mind moral motion National never nomination North Northern Ohio OLIVER GARDNER opinion Parker Pillsbury persons political present President principles Pro-Slavery purpose question refused Report Republic Resolved SAMUEL Senate session Slave Power Slaveholding South Southern speech spirit subject of Slavery success sympathy territory tion Union United vote WENDELL PHILLIPS Whigs WILLIAM WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Wilmot Proviso zeal
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Página 5 - That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty...
Página 14 - Nevertheless congress adopted his views without delay, and on the 13th declared that by an act of the republic of Mexico, a state of war existed between the two governments; it authorized the president to call for volunteers to any number, not exceeding 50,000, to serve for twelve months after arrival at the place of rendezvous, and placed at his disposal $10,000,000. The president immediately intimated to General Scott, the commander-in-chief...
Página 26 - The right of property is before and higher than any Constitutional sanction; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.
Página 14 - House dissenting) had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
Página 60 - Address from the People of Ireland to Their Countrymen and Countrywomen in America.
Página 15 - We hesitate not to say that Annexation, effected by any act or proceeding of the Federal Government, or any of its departments, would be identical with, dissolution. It would be a .violation of our National compact, its objects, designs, and the great elementary principles which entered into its formation, of a character so deep and fundamental, and would be an attempt to eternize an institution and a power...
Página 68 - If, however, any one should offer himself as a missionary, having slaves, and should insist on retaining them as his property, we could not appoint him. One thing is certain, we can never be a party to any arrangement which would imply approbation of slavery'.
Página 15 - ... nature so unjust in themselves, so injurious to the interests and abhorrent to the feelings of the people of the free States, as, in our opinion, not only inevitably to result in a dissolution of the Union, but fully to justify it...
Página 65 - ... Separation aforesaid, and based upon the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, comprehending the doctrines, and entire moral, ecclesiastical, and economical rules and regulations of said Discipline, except only in so far as verbal alterations may be necessary to a distinct organization, and to be known by the style and title of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Página 15 - We hold that there is not only ' no political necessity' for it, ' no advantages to be derived from it,' but that there is no constitutional power delegated to any department of the National Government to authorize it ; that no act of Congress, or treaty for annexation, can impose the least obligation upon the several States of this Union to submit to such an unwarrantable act, or to receive into their family and fraternity such misbegotten and illegitimate progeny. "We hesitate not to say that Annexation,...