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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... reason to deplore , what he has seen sadly on the field of victory , the horrors of war , and especially of a foreign and aggressive war . Of Prosperity - now more than ever needed to relieve the nation from a burden of debt , and ...
... reason to deplore , what he has seen sadly on the field of victory , the horrors of war , and especially of a foreign and aggressive war . Of Prosperity - now more than ever needed to relieve the nation from a burden of debt , and ...
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... reasons , I am autho- rized by my delegation to announce that they withdraw from the Convention . At the same time , I should state the fact that two of the delegation do not join us in this movement . ( Loud cheers ) At the same time ...
... reasons , I am autho- rized by my delegation to announce that they withdraw from the Convention . At the same time , I should state the fact that two of the delegation do not join us in this movement . ( Loud cheers ) At the same time ...
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... reason to believe that he to whom you gave an inch seems emboldened thereby to demand an ell . The undersigned beg leave to state that many patriotic States ' Right Democrats in the South , have long con- tended that these Conventions ...
... reason to believe that he to whom you gave an inch seems emboldened thereby to demand an ell . The undersigned beg leave to state that many patriotic States ' Right Democrats in the South , have long con- tended that these Conventions ...
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... reason for not retiring with his col leagues , and the Convention adjourned . On Tuesday , May 1st , the President stated the regular order of business to be the motions to reconsider , and the motions to lay the mo- tions to reconsider ...
... reason for not retiring with his col leagues , and the Convention adjourned . On Tuesday , May 1st , the President stated the regular order of business to be the motions to reconsider , and the motions to lay the mo- tions to reconsider ...
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... reasons for not retiring with his colleagues , as follows : you a few moments ago , I have been confined to my MR . PRESIDENT , and Fellow DEMOCRATS : As I stated to room by severe indisposition , but , learning of the com- motion and ...
... reasons for not retiring with his colleagues , as follows : you a few moments ago , I have been confined to my MR . PRESIDENT , and Fellow DEMOCRATS : As I stated to room by severe indisposition , but , learning of the com- motion and ...
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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.