A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential Nominations and Elections: Including All the National Platforms Ever Yet Adopted: Also, a History of the Struggle Respecting Slavery in the Territories, and of the Action of Congress as to the Freedom of the Public Lands, with the Most Notable Speeches and Letters of Messrs. Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Cass, Seward ... Etc., Touching the Questions of the Day; and Returns of All Presidential Elections Since 1836 |
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... Topeka , on the 19th day of September , 1855 , then and there to consider and determine upon all subjects of public in- terest , and particularly upon that having reference to the speedy formation of a State Constitution , with an ...
... Topeka , on the 19th day of September , 1855 , then and there to consider and determine upon all subjects of public in- terest , and particularly upon that having reference to the speedy formation of a State Constitution , with an ...
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... Topeka on the fourth Tues- day in October , 1855 , and formed a constitution , which was submitted to the people , and was ratified by them by vote in the districts . An election of State officers and members of the State legislature ...
... Topeka on the fourth Tues- day in October , 1855 , and formed a constitution , which was submitted to the people , and was ratified by them by vote in the districts . An election of State officers and members of the State legislature ...
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... Topeka , on the 19th day oSeptember , 1855 , then and there to consider and ... Constitution , adopt a Bill of Rights for the people of Kansas , and take ... Topeka on the 4th Tuesday of October then next . The proclamation designated the ...
... Topeka , on the 19th day oSeptember , 1855 , then and there to consider and ... Constitution , adopt a Bill of Rights for the people of Kansas , and take ... Topeka on the 4th Tuesday of October then next . The proclamation designated the ...
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... Constitution . The Convention also provided that the question of the adop ... Topeka ..... 135 125 9 69 64 136 Washington .... 42 41 1 42 Brownsville ... Constitution thus adopted , the members of the State Legislature and most of the ...
... Constitution . The Convention also provided that the question of the adop ... Topeka ..... 135 125 9 69 64 136 Washington .... 42 41 1 42 Brownsville ... Constitution thus adopted , the members of the State Legislature and most of the ...
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... Constitution and applying for admission into and near Lecompton . He then left the Territory . the Union as the ... Topeka Constitution " ) should be accepted by under the circumstances in which he was placed , he was Congress , and the ...
... Constitution and applying for admission into and near Lecompton . He then left the Territory . the Union as the ... Topeka Constitution " ) should be accepted by under the circumstances in which he was placed , he was Congress , and the ...
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Page 201 - In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so.
Page 249 - 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, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact : as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact...
Page 201 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Page 249 - Resolved, That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Page 201 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy, meeting in all instances the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries...
Page 109 - 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 own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 25 - That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
Page 26 - 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...
Page 177 - The Congress, the executive, and the court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 26 - ... 1. That the history of the nation, during the last four years, has fully established the propriety and necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the Republican party, and that the causes which called it into existence are permanent in their nature, and now, more than ever before, demand its peaceful and constitutional triumph.