The Constitution a Pro-slavery Compact: Or, Extracts from the Madison Papers, EtcWendell Phillips American anti-slavery society, 1856 - 208 páginas |
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... land , both State and Federal ; — the action of Congress and the State Legislature ; - the constant practice of the Executive in all its branches ; - and the deliberate acquiescence of the whole people for half a century , still they ...
... land , both State and Federal ; — the action of Congress and the State Legislature ; - the constant practice of the Executive in all its branches ; - and the deliberate acquiescence of the whole people for half a century , still they ...
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... land do not know what they themselves mean , who has authority to settle their meaning for them ? If , then , the people and the courts of a country are to be allowed to determine what their own laws mean , it follows that at this time ...
... land do not know what they themselves mean , who has authority to settle their meaning for them ? If , then , the people and the courts of a country are to be allowed to determine what their own laws mean , it follows that at this time ...
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... lands or personalities held in those States where there are few slaves . That the surplus of profit which a Northern farmer is able to lay by , he invests in cattle , horses , & c .; whereas , a Southern farmer lays out the same surplus ...
... lands or personalities held in those States where there are few slaves . That the surplus of profit which a Northern farmer is able to lay by , he invests in cattle , horses , & c .; whereas , a Southern farmer lays out the same surplus ...
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... lands and houses was the best estimate of the wealth of a nation , and that it was practicable to obtain such a valuation . This is the true barometer of wealth . The one now proposed is imperfect in itself , and unequal between the ...
... lands and houses was the best estimate of the wealth of a nation , and that it was practicable to obtain such a valuation . This is the true barometer of wealth . The one now proposed is imperfect in itself , and unequal between the ...
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... land had not been prescribed by the Federal Articles , the Committee would certainly have pre- ferred some other rule of apportionment , particularly that of numbers , under certain qualifications as to slaves . p . 260 . TUESDAY , Feb ...
... land had not been prescribed by the Federal Articles , the Committee would certainly have pre- ferred some other rule of apportionment , particularly that of numbers , under certain qualifications as to slaves . p . 260 . TUESDAY , Feb ...
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adopted African African slave trade agreed amended American American Anti-Slavery Society Article articles of confederation blacks census citizens clause commitment committee compromise Congress Connecticut considered Constitution Convention declared Delaware direct taxes dollars Eastern emancipation equal escape Federal freemen fugitive slaves gentlemen Georgia give GOUVERNEUR MORRIS honorable gentleman House human importation of slaves inhabitants insurrection interest Jersey JOHN QUINCY ADAMS justice land laws Legislature liberty MADISON manumission Maryland Massachusetts master ment moral motion navigation act negroes North Northern number of free object oppression owners of slaves Pennsylvania petition PINCKNEY present principle proportion protection question regulation representation representatives respect rule service or labor SHERMAN slave power slave trade slaveholding South Carolina Southern species of property stitution tax or duty taxation thing thought three fifths tion traffic Union United Virginia vote wealth whole number wished words
Pasajes populares
Página 165 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Página 13 - 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 14 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the united states in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states...
Página 162 - Take counsel, execute judgment; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; Hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Página 163 - But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Página 192 - 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 23 - Congress be authorized to make such requisitions in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes...
Página 73 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman : likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
Página 154 - The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.
Página 163 - That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.