Slavery: Letters and SpeechesB.B. Mussey & Company, 1851 - 564 páginas Tharp collection. |
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Página 18
... judicial records should be kept and promulgated in the English language . Cannot Congress make provis- ion for the rights of the people , as well as for the language in which the laws and records defining those rights 18.
... judicial records should be kept and promulgated in the English language . Cannot Congress make provis- ion for the rights of the people , as well as for the language in which the laws and records defining those rights 18.
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... judicial decisions abound , showing the power of Congress to legislate over territories . From the beginning , Congress has not only legislated over the territories , but it has ap- pointed and controlled the agents of legislation . The ...
... judicial decisions abound , showing the power of Congress to legislate over territories . From the beginning , Congress has not only legislated over the territories , but it has ap- pointed and controlled the agents of legislation . The ...
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... judicial , executive . These func- tions are coördinate ; each supposes the other two . There must be a legislature to enact laws ; there must be a judiciary to expound the laws enacted , and point out the individuals against whom they ...
... judicial , executive . These func- tions are coördinate ; each supposes the other two . There must be a legislature to enact laws ; there must be a judiciary to expound the laws enacted , and point out the individuals against whom they ...
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... judicial , and executive administration of this government over territories , since the adoption of the constitution ? It makes the whole of it invalid . The Presidents , all members of Congress , all judges upon the bench , have been ...
... judicial , and executive administration of this government over territories , since the adoption of the constitution ? It makes the whole of it invalid . The Presidents , all members of Congress , all judges upon the bench , have been ...
Página 70
... judicial tribunal of South Carolina : " Although slaves are held to be the absolute property of their owners , yet they have the power of committing crimes . " - 2d Nott and McCord's Rep . , p . 179 . A negro is so far amenable to the ...
... judicial tribunal of South Carolina : " Although slaves are held to be the absolute property of their owners , yet they have the power of committing crimes . " - 2d Nott and McCord's Rep . , p . 179 . A negro is so far amenable to the ...
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Página 57 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 393 - And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching, throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
Página 57 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 263 - Third, new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution.
Página 157 - That, in addition to the provisions of the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States...
Página 492 - ... mentioned, shall be conclusive of the right of the person or persons in whose favor granted, to remove such fugitive to the State or Territory from which he escaped, and shall prevent all molestation of such person or persons by any process issued by any court, judge, magistrate, or other person whomsoever.
Página 197 - We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, .... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Página 115 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to Liberty, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till Nature herself shall change. No tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle...
Página 263 - States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire. And in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory, north of said Missouri compromise line, slavery or involuntary servitude, (except for crime,) shall be prohibited.
Página 290 - That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.