The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great Rebellion: Including a Classified Summary of the Legislation of the Second Session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, the Three Sessions of the Thirty-seventh Congress, the First Session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, with the Votes Thereon, and the Important Executive, Judicial, and Politico-military Facts of that Eventful Period; Together with the Organization, Legislation, and General Proceedings of the Rebel Administration; and an Appendix Containing the Principal Political Facts of the Campaign of 1864, a Chapter on the Church and the Rebellion, and the Proceedings of the Second Session of the Thirty-eighth Congress |
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... Slavery in the Ter- ritories - Amendments to the Constitution , pro- posed in the Thirty - Eighth Congress , First Ses- sion - Resolutions on Slavery in the States , in the same Congress - Bureau of Freedmen's Affairs . LEGISLATION ...
... Slavery in the Ter- ritories - Amendments to the Constitution , pro- posed in the Thirty - Eighth Congress , First Ses- sion - Resolutions on Slavery in the States , in the same Congress - Bureau of Freedmen's Affairs . LEGISLATION ...
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... slavery , are the natural results of the consolidation of the Government . Responsi- bility , follows power ; and if the people of the North , have the power by Congress- " to promote the general welfare of the United States , " by any ...
... slavery , are the natural results of the consolidation of the Government . Responsi- bility , follows power ; and if the people of the North , have the power by Congress- " to promote the general welfare of the United States , " by any ...
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... slavery issues , was in the obvious course of they would have formed a Union with more powerful non- things . slaveholding States , having majority in both branches of The Constitution of the United States , was an experiment . the ...
... slavery issues , was in the obvious course of they would have formed a Union with more powerful non- things . slaveholding States , having majority in both branches of The Constitution of the United States , was an experiment . the ...
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... slavery has led to a disregard of their obligations , and the laws of the general government have ceased to effect the objects of the constitution . The States of Maine , New Hampshire , Vermont , Massachusetts , Con- necticut , Rhode ...
... slavery has led to a disregard of their obligations , and the laws of the general government have ceased to effect the objects of the constitution . The States of Maine , New Hampshire , Vermont , Massachusetts , Con- necticut , Rhode ...
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... slavery . My objection to the other address is , that it dwells too much upon those fugitive slave laws and those personal liberty bills , which give it too much the appear- ance of special pleading . The address which we have under ...
... slavery . My objection to the other address is , that it dwells too much upon those fugitive slave laws and those personal liberty bills , which give it too much the appear- ance of special pleading . The address which we have under ...
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Page 255 - 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 107 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 225 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free...
Page 107 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it.
Page 89 - That the Constitution, and all Laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Page 174 - 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 107 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 192 - ... and all slaves captured from such persons or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States...
Page 106 - A disruption of the Federal Union, heretofore only menaced, is now formidably attempted. I hold that, in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
Page 220 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.