The Growth of the Nation, 1837-1860, from the Beginning of Van Buren's Administration to the Close of that of Buchanansubscribers only, 1905 - 489 páginas |
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... Citizens arrested for participation . Conflict in Christiana , Pennsylvania , over the attempted arrest of a fugitive slave . The case of Shadrack at Boston . Excitement over the arrest of Sims . The entire North arrayed against the ...
... Citizens arrested for participation . Conflict in Christiana , Pennsylvania , over the attempted arrest of a fugitive slave . The case of Shadrack at Boston . Excitement over the arrest of Sims . The entire North arrayed against the ...
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... citizens across the border , hopeful of having Canada annexed to the United States , sought to foment the spirit of civil strife . Such was the situation when on November 21 , 1838 , Presi- dent Van Buren issued a proclamation warning ...
... citizens across the border , hopeful of having Canada annexed to the United States , sought to foment the spirit of civil strife . Such was the situation when on November 21 , 1838 , Presi- dent Van Buren issued a proclamation warning ...
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... citizen of the East , the hardy pioneer of the West , were all there . It was the epitome of a great nation , in itself realizing , filling up the imaginings , and may have been the very picture which the poet drew when he described our ...
... citizen of the East , the hardy pioneer of the West , were all there . It was the epitome of a great nation , in itself realizing , filling up the imaginings , and may have been the very picture which the poet drew when he described our ...
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... citizens been indefinitely mortgaged to the subjects of European governments , to the amount of twelve million dollars annually , to pay the constantly accruing interest of borrowed money - a sum exceeding half of the ordinary revenues ...
... citizens been indefinitely mortgaged to the subjects of European governments , to the amount of twelve million dollars annually , to pay the constantly accruing interest of borrowed money - a sum exceeding half of the ordinary revenues ...
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... citizens be trusted to come together to express the great principles of liberty for which their fathers died ? Are our fellow - citizens to be murdered in the act of defending their property and of assuming the right of free discussion ...
... citizens be trusted to come together to express the great principles of liberty for which their fathers died ? Are our fellow - citizens to be murdered in the act of defending their property and of assuming the right of free discussion ...
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Página 433 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 218 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, — the most unremitting despotism on the one part and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 433 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Página 135 - 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. And such States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of...
Página 361 - That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law...
Página 38 - I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me, and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last, and the last should be first.
Página 361 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism — Polygamy and Slavery.
Página 135 - 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 134 - 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 257 - Why, what would be the result? Where is the line to be drawn? What States are to secede? What is to remain American? What am I to be?