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... honored with the Presidency for twenty out of twenty - four years of our Con- stitutional existence , and when it is obvious that the practice has arrayed the agricultural against the commercial interests of the country . 4. Opposition ...
... honored with the Presidency for twenty out of twenty - four years of our Con- stitutional existence , and when it is obvious that the practice has arrayed the agricultural against the commercial interests of the country . 4. Opposition ...
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... honor , and a life of public and private virtue , as the security . The 4. Resolved , That we look on General Taylor's administration of the government as one con- ducive of peace , prosperity and union ; of peace , because no one ...
... honor , and a life of public and private virtue , as the security . The 4. Resolved , That we look on General Taylor's administration of the government as one con- ducive of peace , prosperity and union ; of peace , because no one ...
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... honor and patriotism require the earliest practical pay- ment of the national debt ; and we are , therefore , in favor of such a tariff of duties as will raise revenue adequate to defray the expenses of the Federal Government , and to ...
... honor and patriotism require the earliest practical pay- ment of the national debt ; and we are , therefore , in favor of such a tariff of duties as will raise revenue adequate to defray the expenses of the Federal Government , and to ...
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... honor , instead of other obligations , for fellowship and admission into the party . 16. A free and open discussion of all political principles embraced in our platform . Democratic Platform . Resolved , That the American Democracy ...
... honor , instead of other obligations , for fellowship and admission into the party . 16. A free and open discussion of all political principles embraced in our platform . Democratic Platform . Resolved , That the American Democracy ...
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... honor abroad ; and we hold in abhorrence all schemes for disunion , come from whatever source they may ; and we congratulate the country that no Republican member of Con- gress has uttered or countenanced the threats of disunion so ...
... honor abroad ; and we hold in abhorrence all schemes for disunion , come from whatever source they may ; and we congratulate the country that no Republican member of Con- gress has uttered or countenanced the threats of disunion so ...
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Page 1 - ... as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no farther valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights,...
Page 1 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the Federal Government as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties...
Page 3 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Page 26 - 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...
Page 26 - That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Federal Constitution...
Page 26 - 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 imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism— polygamy and slavery.
Page 37 - We recognize the equality of all men before the law, and hold that it is the duty of government, in its dealings with the people, to mete out equal and exact justice to all, of whatever nativity, race, color, or persuasion, religious or political.
Page 30 - Congress is provisional and temporary, and during its existence all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle with their property in the territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by congressional or territorial legislation.
Page 29 - That the new dogma that the Constitution of its own force carried slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States...
Page 1 - That the General Assembly of Virginia doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this state, against every aggression either foreign or domestic; and that they will support the Government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former.