The Political Text-book, Or Encyclopedia: Containing Everything Necessary for the Reference of the Politicians and Statesmen of the United States |
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... prohibited alien suffrage in the territories , was adopted by yeas and nays as follows : - YEAS . Messrs . Adams , Atchison , Badger , Bell , Benjamin , Brodhead , Brown , Butler , Clay , Clayton , Dawson , Dizon , Evans , Fitzpatrick ...
... prohibited alien suffrage in the territories , was adopted by yeas and nays as follows : - YEAS . Messrs . Adams , Atchison , Badger , Bell , Benjamin , Brodhead , Brown , Butler , Clay , Clayton , Dawson , Dizon , Evans , Fitzpatrick ...
Page 68
... prohibited , except for the punishment of crimes , whereof the party shall have been duly convicted . " And that all children born within the said state , after the admission thereof into the Union , shall be free at the age of 25 years ...
... prohibited , except for the punishment of crimes , whereof the party shall have been duly convicted . " And that all children born within the said state , after the admission thereof into the Union , shall be free at the age of 25 years ...
Page 81
... prohibited , or , in other words , whether I would advocate a double inhibition , I have only to say , that , if a doubt existed as to its exclusion by valid municipal law , I should sustain an act which embodied the prohibition known ...
... prohibited , or , in other words , whether I would advocate a double inhibition , I have only to say , that , if a doubt existed as to its exclusion by valid municipal law , I should sustain an act which embodied the prohibition known ...
Page 90
... prohibited north of the parallel of 36 deg . 30 min . , and south of this parallel the question was left to be decided by the people . What people ? Un- doubtedly the people of the territory assem- bled in convention to form a state ...
... prohibited north of the parallel of 36 deg . 30 min . , and south of this parallel the question was left to be decided by the people . What people ? Un- doubtedly the people of the territory assem- bled in convention to form a state ...
Page 113
... prohibited by the provisional go- " I am bound to state , and I will now do it in the presence vernment , these words : of all the members of the committee , northern as well as southern , that in that committee the South proposed the ...
... prohibited by the provisional go- " I am bound to state , and I will now do it in the presence vernment , these words : of all the members of the committee , northern as well as southern , that in that committee the South proposed the ...
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admission admitted adopted alien amendment American appointed assembled authority bill citizens clause committee Congress Conn Constitution convention council court declared delegates Democratic district Dred Scott duty election enacted entitled exist federal foreign fugitive governor gress House of Representatives inhabitants Israel Washburne jurisdiction Kansas labor Lecompton constitution legislative legislature Mass ment Messrs Missouri Missouri compromise nay nay nay nay nay yea nay yea nay nay yea yea North Ohio opinion organization party passed persons plaintiff political present President principle prohibited question resolution Senate slave slavery Smith South Carolina stitution Tenn terri territory territory of Kansas territory of Nebraska thereof Thomas J. D. Fuller tion treaty Union United Virginia vote voters Williamson R. W. Cobb yea nay nay yea nay yea yea yea nay yea yea yea yeas and nays