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... entire delega- tion from all the slaveholding States to retire from the hall , and to meet in the room of the Committee on the District of Columbia . A large number of them did meet for consultation in the room designated . The meeting ...
... entire delega- tion from all the slaveholding States to retire from the hall , and to meet in the room of the Committee on the District of Columbia . A large number of them did meet for consultation in the room designated . The meeting ...
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... the first Monday of September , 1857. They proceeded to form a Constitution , and , having finished their work , adjourned on the 7th November . The entire Constitution was not submitted to the popular vote THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR . 21.
... the first Monday of September , 1857. They proceeded to form a Constitution , and , having finished their work , adjourned on the 7th November . The entire Constitution was not submitted to the popular vote THE FIRST YEAR OF THE WAR . 21.
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... entire result of their labors to a vote of the people ; he ex- plained that , when he instructed Governor Walker , in general terms , in favor of submitting the Constitution to the people , he had no other object in view beyond the all ...
... entire result of their labors to a vote of the people ; he ex- plained that , when he instructed Governor Walker , in general terms , in favor of submitting the Constitution to the people , he had no other object in view beyond the all ...
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... entire Southern delegation gave warning that they would regard the election of Mr. Sherman , or of any man with his record , as an open declaration of war upon the institutions of the South ; as much so , some of the members declared ...
... entire Southern delegation gave warning that they would regard the election of Mr. Sherman , or of any man with his record , as an open declaration of war upon the institutions of the South ; as much so , some of the members declared ...
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... entire Dem- ocratic party of the North as unreliable and " rotten . " The State Rights party of the South had co - operated with the Democracy of the North in the Presidential canvass of 1856 , upon the principles of the platform ...
... entire Dem- ocratic party of the North as unreliable and " rotten . " The State Rights party of the South had co - operated with the Democracy of the North in the Presidential canvass of 1856 , upon the principles of the platform ...
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Page 56 - WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 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...
Page 58 - Resolved, as the sense of the Senate of Massachusetts, that in a war like the present, waged without justifiable cause, and prosecuted in a manner which indicates that conquest and ambition are its real motives, it is not becoming a moral and religious people to express any approbation of military or naval exploits which are not immediately connected with the defence of our sea-coast and soil.
Page 106 - There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
Page 32 - That when the settlers in a Territory having an adequate population form a State Constitution, the right of sovereignty commences, and, being consummated by admission into the Union, they stand on an equal footing with the people of other States; and the State thus organized ought to be admitted into the Federal Union, whether its constitution prohibits or recognizes the institution of Slavery.
Page 32 - Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union, in Convention assembled, hereby declare our affirmance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and declared as a platform of principles by the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, in the year 1856, believing that Democratic principles are unchangeable in their nature, when applied to the same subject matters...
Page 60 - I have only to say that the militia of Virginia will not be furnished to the powers at Washington for any such use or purpose as they have in view. Your object is to subjugate the Southern States, and a requisition made upon me for such an object — an object in my judgment not within the purview of the Constitution or the Act of 1795 — will not be complied with. You have chosen to inaugurate civil war, and having done so, we will meet it in a spirit as determined as the administration has exhibited...
Page 32 - Convention, or what remained of it, nominated Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois for President, and Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama for Vice-President. The latter declining, Herschel V. Johnson of Georgia was substituted on the ticket. A Convention of what was called the " Constitutional Union
Page 19 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise 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...
Page 17 - Resolved, That all petitions, memorials and papers, touching the abolition of slavery or the buying, selling or transferring of slaves, in any State, District or Territory, of the United States, be laid on the table, without being debated, printed, read or referred, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Page 56 - 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 : now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, in virtue of the power in me vested by the Constitution and the laws, have thought fit to call forth, and hereby do call forth, the militia of the several States of the Union to the aggregate number of 75,000, in order to suppress said combinations and to cause the laws to be duly executed.