The War with the South: A History of the Late Rebellion, with Biographical Sketches of Leading Statesmen and Distinguished Naval and Military Commanders, Etc, Том 1Virtue & Yorston, 1862 |
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... Missouri Compromise act was abrogated , for the purpose of admitting the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas as slaveholding alarmed by these continued encroach- ments of the South , and resolutely pre- pared to check them . In spite of ...
... Missouri Compromise act was abrogated , for the purpose of admitting the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas as slaveholding alarmed by these continued encroach- ments of the South , and resolutely pre- pared to check them . In spite of ...
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... Missouri Compro- mise aroused Lincoln once more to active political effort , and he came for- ward as a champion of the new Repub- lican party organized to resist the ex- tension of slavery . In the canvass for the choice of a senator ...
... Missouri Compro- mise aroused Lincoln once more to active political effort , and he came for- ward as a champion of the new Repub- lican party organized to resist the ex- tension of slavery . In the canvass for the choice of a senator ...
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... Missouri Compromise line ? A. I am impliedly , if not expressly , pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United States ' Territories . Q. 7. I desire him to answer whether he is opposed to ...
... Missouri Compromise line ? A. I am impliedly , if not expressly , pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United States ' Territories . Q. 7. I desire him to answer whether he is opposed to ...
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... Missouri Com- promise , impairing in the slightest de- gree the rights of the South to their property in slaves . And it may also be observed , judging from the present in- | dications , that no probability exists of the passage of such ...
... Missouri Com- promise , impairing in the slightest de- gree the rights of the South to their property in slaves . And it may also be observed , judging from the present in- | dications , that no probability exists of the passage of such ...
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... Missouri Compromise line - prohibiting slavery in the Territory north of 36 deg . 30 min . , and protecting it south of that lat- itude ; to admit new States with or with- out slavery , as their constitutions shall provide ; to prohibit ...
... Missouri Compromise line - prohibiting slavery in the Territory north of 36 deg . 30 min . , and protecting it south of that lat- itude ; to admit new States with or with- out slavery , as their constitutions shall provide ; to prohibit ...
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Страница 42 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed ; and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Страница 109 - Resolved, 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, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend, and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Страница 111 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Страница 115 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired...
Страница 96 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
Страница 158 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Страница 113 - ... decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal. Nor is there in this view any assault upon the court or the judges. It is a duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them, and it is no fault of theirs if others seek to turn their decisions...
Страница 112 - Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible ; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.
Страница 111 - Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from, will you risk the commission of...
Страница 42 - AND OTHER STATES UNITED WITH HER UNDER THE COMPACT ENTITLED "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.