First Blows of the Civil War: The Ten Years of Preliminary Conflict in the United States. From 1850 to 1860. A Contemporaneous Exposition. Progress of the Struggle Shown by Public Records and Private Correspondence. With Letters, Now First Published ...American News Company, 1879 - 526 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Administration annexation anti-Nebraska believe Benton candidate character Clay Congress Constitution contest Convention course Court Cuba Dana DEAR PIKE declare Democratic doctrine doubt doughfaces Douglas duty election expect fact favor feel Fessenden filibustering Fillmore Free freedom Freesoil friends Fugitive Fugitive Slave Law gentlemen Governor GUROWSKI hope HORACE GREELEY House interest J. S. PIKE Kansas Know-nothing Lecompton Constitution legislation letter Locofocos Manifest Destiny March measures ment Mexico Missouri Compromise Nebraska bill never nomination North Northern opinion outrage political position present President presidential regard repeal resolutions Scott Senate sentiment Seward slave power slave-holders slavery slavery question Soulé South Southern Whigs Spain speech spirit stand Straub Territories thing tion to-day traitors triumph TRUMAN SMITH Union vote WASHBURN WASHINGTON Webster Whig party whole William Pitt Fessenden Wilmot Proviso write York Tribune
Pasajes populares
Página 189 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Página 188 - 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 52 - rely on other foundations and other hopes for the welfare of the country ; but, for my part, in the dark and troubled night that is upon us I see no star above the horizon promising light to guide us but the intelligent, patriotic, united Whig party of the United States.
Página 189 - ... parties, with singular unanimity, have affirmed as a cardinal article of their faith, and proclaimed to the world as a final settlement of the controversy and an end of the agitation. A due respect, therefore, for the avowed opinions of senators, as well as a proper sense of patriotic duty...
Página 17 - ... comprised within the boundaries of California and Texas — because from those high table-lands slavery was excluded by a divine dispensation, and it was useless for congress to re-enact the law of God. Mr. Pike, in the same letter to the "Portland Advertiser," thus comments on the great speech : — Mr. Webster's speech, delivered on Thursday, made a wide and deep sensation. It was listened to by the most densely packed audience ever assembled within the walls of the senate chamber. It was a...
Página 188 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be,. and is hereby, forever prohibited...
Página 227 - The time will come when a treaty of commerce and alliance with Brazil, will give us the control over the Gulf of Mexico and its border countries, together with the islands, and the consequence of this will place African slavery beyond the reach of fanaticism, at home or abroad. These two great slave powers...
Página 520 - Virginia had been regularly sold out; but the seller could not deliver. We had to rain red-hot bolts on them, however, to keep the majority from going for Seward, who got eight votes here as it was. Indiana was our right bower, and Missouri above praise.
Página 235 - The revolution is accomplished, and slavery is king ! How long shall this monarch reign ? This is now the question for the Northern people to answer. Their representatives have crowned the new potentate, and the people alone can depose him. If we were a few steps further advanced in the drama of reaction now going forward upon the great theater of public affairs upon this continent, he could only be hurled from his seat through a bloody contest.
Página 159 - That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker." We are borne onward by a force which seems hastening some great consummation. If all do not agree as to the result which these changes are to bring, no one can shut his eyes to the changes themselves. They have multiplied within the year ; they are multiplying ; they will continue to multiply. The conservative and the radical — the ultra whig and the ultra democrat — are all overwhelmed by the resistless course of things, if they stop even but a moment...