A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United States: From the Declaration of Independence to the Present Day. Mainly Compiled and Condensed from the Journals of Congress and Other Official Records, and Showing the Vote by Yeas and Nays on the Most Important Divisions in Either HouseDix, Edwards & Company, 1856 - 164 páginas |
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... reported a plan for the government of the Western Territory , con- templating the whole region included within our boundaries west of the old thirteen States , and as far south as our 31st degree of North latitude ; territory as yet ...
... reported a plan for the government of the Western Territory , con- templating the whole region included within our boundaries west of the old thirteen States , and as far south as our 31st degree of North latitude ; territory as yet ...
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... reported quire it . ( July 11th ) , " An Ordinance for the gov - shall be passed . ernment of the Territory of the United States , Northwest of the Ohio " -the larger area contemplated by Mr. Jefferson's bill not having been ceded by ...
... reported quire it . ( July 11th ) , " An Ordinance for the gov - shall be passed . ernment of the Territory of the United States , Northwest of the Ohio " -the larger area contemplated by Mr. Jefferson's bill not having been ceded by ...
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... reported ( February 17th , 1804 ) , " That , taking into their consideration the facts stated in the said memorial and petition , they are induced to believe that a qualified suspension , for tween the original States and the people and ...
... reported ( February 17th , 1804 ) , " That , taking into their consideration the facts stated in the said memorial and petition , they are induced to believe that a qualified suspension , for tween the original States and the people and ...
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... reported as follows : " The resolutions of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Indiana Ter- ritory , relate to a suspension , for the term of ten years , of the sixth article of compact between the United States ...
... reported as follows : " The resolutions of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Indiana Ter- ritory , relate to a suspension , for the term of ten years , of the sixth article of compact between the United States ...
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... reported a bill to authorize the People of Missouri Territory to form a Constitution and State Government , and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States ; which bill was read the first ...
... reported a bill to authorize the People of Missouri Territory to form a Constitution and State Government , and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States ; which bill was read the first ...
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admission admitted adopted aforesaid amendment annexation appointed authority bill boundary California ceded citizens claim clause Committee Compromise condition Congress Constitution convention Court declared delegates district Douglas duty election emigration establish existing Federal Free-State further enacted gentlemen Governor gress held hereby inhabitants John John Landis Jones Judges Kansas Territory Kansas-Nebraska act legal votes legislative assembly legislature liberty Louisiana ment Messrs Mexico Missouri Missouri Compromise Missouri Territory Missourians moved Nays New-Mexico Norman Allen oath officers Ohio organic party passed Pawnee City persons polls portion precinct present President principle Pro-Slavery prohibited proposed question regulations Republic of Texas republican resolution Resolved Restriction ritory Senate session settlers sion slaveholding Slavery slaves South Tenn Terri Territorial government Territory of Kansas Territory of Nebraska Texas thereof tion tory treaty Union United voters Whigs William Yeas
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Página 73 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Página 84 - That the legislative power of the Territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act ; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil...
Página 147 - Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the general assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship, and to encourage schools and the means of instruction.
Página 26 - ... 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 21 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Página 147 - All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining safety- and happiness.
Página 147 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Página 83 - Nebraska, or to affect the authority of the government of the United States to make any regulations respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights by treaty, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent to the government to make if this act had never passed.
Página 84 - Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory; but the qualifications of voters and of holding office at all subsequent elections shall be such as shall be prescribed by the legislative assembly: Provided, That the right of suffrage and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States...
Página 86 - March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void...