The American Union: Its Effect on National Character and Policy, with an Inquiry Into Secession as a Constitutional Right, and the Causes of the DisruptionR. Bentley, 1862 - 391 páginas |
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... Abolitionists . - Absence of practical measures Only rational prospect of emancipation Is really a question of detail . - Power of public opinion CHAPTER V. TARIFFS . Brief history of the course of American tariffs Nullification of the ...
... Abolitionists . - Absence of practical measures Only rational prospect of emancipation Is really a question of detail . - Power of public opinion CHAPTER V. TARIFFS . Brief history of the course of American tariffs Nullification of the ...
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... seems incapable of grasp- ing and weighing both sides of the subject . The Abolitionist never considers what his own feelings would be , had he been born a slave - 74 THE AMERICAN UNION . Repudiation Illogical reasoning -Mr Cassius M Clay.
... seems incapable of grasp- ing and weighing both sides of the subject . The Abolitionist never considers what his own feelings would be , had he been born a slave - 74 THE AMERICAN UNION . Repudiation Illogical reasoning -Mr Cassius M Clay.
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... Abolitionists . Thirdly . Endangered interests ; exposed now to the action of the Protectionist party , on their accession to permanent power . No one will presume to assign the exact pro- portions in which these causes have combined to ...
... Abolitionists . Thirdly . Endangered interests ; exposed now to the action of the Protectionist party , on their accession to permanent power . No one will presume to assign the exact pro- portions in which these causes have combined to ...
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... Abolitionists now impelling those in power , he forebodes the destruction of his property , the ruin of his State , and the danger of his life . He sees in their success the prostration of his country into the barbarism of Hayti , with ...
... Abolitionists now impelling those in power , he forebodes the destruction of his property , the ruin of his State , and the danger of his life . He sees in their success the prostration of his country into the barbarism of Hayti , with ...
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... abolitionist culls out these exceptional cases , and presents them as samples of the whole . Now it will readily be seen how terrible a picture might be drawn of the atrocities committed in this country every month of the year . That ...
... abolitionist culls out these exceptional cases , and presents them as samples of the whole . Now it will readily be seen how terrible a picture might be drawn of the atrocities committed in this country every month of the year . That ...
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Página 356 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Página 34 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Página 351 - ... 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 hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Página 352 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
Página 338 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 347 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Página 372 - States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; 17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States...
Página 132 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 353 - No person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President...
Página 216 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.